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Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
s.

See also Literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
; Drama
Drama

Drama is the specific Mode of fiction Mimesis in performance. The term comes from a Ancient Greek word meaning "Action " , which is derived from "to do" ....
; List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth
List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth

Dramatists listed in chronological order by country and language:See also: List of playwrights; List of early-modern women playwrights; Lists of writers...
; Lists of authors

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Jeremy Gable

Jeremy Joseph Gable is an American playwright living in Fullerton, California.Gable was born in Lakenheath, Suffolk, England. He is best known for his acclaimed plays seen in Los Angeles and Orange County, California, most notably "American Way ", "Giant Green Lizard! The Musical", the Flying Spaghetti Monster plays, "Re: Woyzeck" and h...
 (born 1982) (United States) Christoph Gahl Zona Gale
Zona Gale

Zona Gale was an American author, and playwright....
 (1874-1938) (United States) Ferdinando Galiani
Ferdinando Galiani

Ferdinando Galiani was an Italy economist.He was born at Chieti, and carefully educated by his uncle, Monsignor C. Galiani, at Naples and Rome with a view to entering the church....
 (1728-1787) (Italy) John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Order of Merit was an England novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter....
 (1867-1933) (England) Simon Gantillon (1887-1961) (France) Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta
Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta

Vicente Antonio Garc?a de la Huerta was a Spain dramatist, educated at Salamanca. At Madrid he soon attracted attention by his literary arrogance and handsome person; and at an early age became chief of the National Library, a post from which he was dismissed owing to the intrigues of his numerous enemies....
 (1734-1787) (Spain) Antonio García Gutiérrez
Antonio García Gutiérrez

'Antonio Garc?a Guti?rrez' was a Spain Romanticism dramatist.After having studied medicine in his native town, he moved to Madrid in 1833, and earned a meager living by translating plays of Eug?ne Scribe and the Alexandre Dumas, p?re; lacking success, he was on the point of enlisting when he suddenly sprang into fame as the author of El tr...
 (1813-1884) (Spain) Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca

Federico Garc?a Lorca was a Spain poet, dramatist and theatre director. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was abducted and murdered by persons likely affiliated with the Nationalist cause at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War....
 (1898-1936) (Spain) Robert Garnier
Robert Garnier

Robert Garnier , was a France tragic poet. He published his first work while still a law-student at Toulouse, where he won a prize in the Acad?mie des Jeux Floraux....
 (1544-1590) (France) David Garrick
David Garrick

David Garrick was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and Theatrical producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson....
 (1717-1779) (England) George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne

George Gascoigne was an England poet. He was the eldest son of Sir John Gascoigne of Cardington, Bedfordshire....
 (1535-1577) (England) Armand Gatti
Armand Gatti

Armand Gatti is a French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter and film-maker. His 1963 film, El Otro Crist?bal was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival....
 (born 1924) (France) Natalie Gaupp
Natalie Gaupp

Natalie Gaupp is an American playwright. Her professional production credits include theatres primarily in the Southwest US, as well as off-off-Broadway....
 (born 1967) (United States) John Gay
John Gay

John Gay was an English people poet and dramatist. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera , set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch....
 (1685-1732) (England) Michael V. Gazzo
Michael V. Gazzo

Michael Vincente Gazo was a noted Broadway theatre playwright who later in life became a prominent United States film and television actor.He was a member of the Actors Studio, and was author of the notable Broadway theatre play on drug addiction A Hatful of Rain, which ran for 389 performances in 1955 and 1956 - starring Ben Gazzara...
 (1923-1995) (United States) Jack Gelber
Jack Gelber

Jack Gelber was a Chicago-born US American playwright best known for his 1959 dramaThe Connection , depicting the dead-end life of drug addicts....
 (1932-2003) (United States) Gratien Gélinas
Gratien Gélinas

Gratien G?linas, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Royal Society of Canada was a Canada author, playwright, actor, director, producer and administrator who is considered one of the founders of modern Canadian theatre and film....
 (1909-1999) (Canada) *French language
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
* Jean Genet
Jean Genet

Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial France novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activism. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing....
 (1910-1986) (France) Paul Géraldy (1885-1983) (France) Katharina Gericke Esther Gerritsen Joel Gersmann (1942-2005) (United States) Alice Gerstenberg Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg
Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg

Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg was a Germany poet and criticHe was born at Tondern, in Schleswig.After studying law at Jena he entered the Denmark military service and took part in the Russian campaign of 1762....
 (1737-1823) (Germany) Landen Gessell Elke Geurts (born 1973) (Netherlands) Michel de Ghelderode
Michel De Ghelderode

Michel de Ghelderode was an avant-garde Demographics of Belgium dramatist, writing in French language. He was born on Palm Sunday April 3rd, 1898, as Adh?mar-Adolphe-Louis Martens in Ixelles and married in 1924 to Jeanne-Fran?oise G?rard....
 (1898-1962) (Belgium) *French language
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
* Henri Ghéon
Henri Ghéon

File:Henri Gh?on by Jean Veber.jpgHenri Gh?on , born Henri Vangeon in Bray-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Marne, was a French playwright, critic and poet....
 (1875-1944) (France) Gherardo Gherardi (1891-1949) (Italy) Paolo Giacometti
Paolo Giacometti

Paolo Giacometti was an Italy dramatist born at Novi Ligure. He was educated in law at Genoa, but at the age of twenty had some success with his play Rosilda and then devoted himself to the stage....
 (1816-1882) (Italy) Giuseppe Giacosa
Giuseppe Giacosa

Giuseppe Giacosa was an Italian poet, playwright and Libretto.He was born in Colleretto Parella, now Colleretto Giacosa, near Turin. His father was a magistrate....
 (1847-1906) (Italy) Gigio Artemio Giancarli (ca.






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List of notable playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
s.

See also Literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
; Drama
Drama

Drama is the specific Mode of fiction Mimesis in performance. The term comes from a Ancient Greek word meaning "Action " , which is derived from "to do" ....
; List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth
List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth

Dramatists listed in chronological order by country and language:See also: List of playwrights; List of early-modern women playwrights; Lists of writers...
; Lists of authors

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Ab-Al
  • George Abbot
    George Abbot

    George Abbot or George Abbott may refer to:* George Abbot , English clergyman* George Abbot , English writer* George Henry Abbott , Australian physician...
     (1887-1995) (United States)
  • Kjeld Abell
    Kjeld Abell

    Kjeld Abell was a Danish playwright and theatrical designer. Born in Ribe, Denmark, Abell's first designs were seen in ballets directed by George Balanchine at Copenhagen's Royal Danish Theatre and London's Alhambra Theatre....
     (1901-1961) (Denmark
    Denmark

    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
    )
  • Marcel Achard
    Marcel Achard

    Marcel Achard was a France playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly-recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades....
     (1899-1974) (France)
  • Herbert Achternbusch
    Herbert Achternbusch

    Herbert Achternbusch is a Germany writer, Painting and filmmaker. His anarchism surrealism films are not known to a wide audience in Germany, although one of them, Das Gespenst , caused a scandal in 1983 because of its...
  • Adam de la Halle
    Adam de la Halle

    Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu was a France-born trouv?re, poet and musician, who broke with the long-established tradition of writing liturgy poetry and music to be an early founder of secular theater in France....
     (ca. 1237-ca. 1288) (France)
  • Arthur Adamov
    Arthur Adamov

    Arthur Adamov was a playwright, one of the foremost exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd.Adamov was born in Kislovodsk in Russia to a wealthy Armenians family, which lost its wealth in 1917....
     (1908-1970) (France)
  • Joseph Addison
    Joseph Addison

    ??File:Joseph Addison.pngJoseph Addison was an English essayist and poet. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison, and later the dean of Lichfield....
     (1672-1719) (England)
  • George Ade
    George Ade

    George Ade was an American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright....
     (1866-1944) (United States)
  • Aeschylus
    Aeschylus

    Aeschylus was an Ancient Greece playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedy whose Play survive extant, the others being Sophocles and Euripides....
    , (ca. 525 B.C.-456 B.C.) (Greece)
  • Aleksandr Nikolayevich Afinogenov (1904-1941) (Russia)
  • Agathon
    Agathon

    Agathon was an Athens tragic poet. He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium , which describes the Symposium given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in ....
  • Demetrio Aguilera-Malta
  • Leopold Ahlsen (born 1927) (Germany)
  • Ama Ata Aidoo
    Ama Ata Aidoo

    Professor Ama Ata Aidoo is a Ghanaian author and playwright who was born Christina Ama Aidoo in Saltpond. She grew up in a Fante royal household and was sent by her father to the Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast from 1961 to 1964....
  • Étienne Aignan
    Étienne Aignan

    ?tienne Aignan was a France translator, political writer, librettist and playwright born in Beaugency-sur-Loire.In 1814 he was made a member of the Acad?mie fran?aise, replacing Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre in List of members of the Acad?mie fran?aise#Seat27....
  • George L. Aiken
    George Aiken (playwright)

    George L. Aiken was a nineteenth century United States playwright and actor who is best known for writing the most popular of the numerous stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin....
     (1830-1876) (United States)
  • Zoe Akins
    Zoe Akins

    Zo? Akins American playwright, poet, and author....
  • Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov
  • Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza
  • Edward Albee
    Edward Albee

    Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright best known for works, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, The Sandbox and The American Dream ....
     (born 1928) (United States)
  • Rafael Alberti
    Rafael Alberti

    Rafael Alberti Merello was a Mexican poet, a member of the Generation of '27.Alberti published his first books of poetry towards the end of the 1920s: Marinero en tierra , La Amante and El alba del alhel? ....
     (1902-1999) (Spain)
  • James Albery
    James Albery

    James Albery was an English dramatist....
  • Vasile Alecsandri
    Vasile Alecsandri

    Vasile Alecsandri, was a Romanian poet, playwright, politician, and diplomat. He collected Romanian folklore and was one of the principal animators of the 19th century movement for Romanian cultural identity and union of Moldavia and Wallachia....
     (1821-1890) (Romania)
  • Alonso Alegría
  • Vittorio Alfieri
    Vittorio Alfieri

    Count Vittorio Alfieri , was an Italy dramatist, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy."...
     (1749-1803) (Italy)
  • William Alfred (1922-1999) (United States)
  • Jay Presson Allen
    Jay Presson Allen

    Jay Presson Allen was an American screenwriter, playwright, stage director, television producer and novelist. Known for her withering wit and sometimes-off-color wisecracks, she was one of the few women making a living as a screenwriter at a time when women were a rarity in the profession....
     (1922-2006) (United States)
  • Jim Allen
    Jim Allen (playwright)

    James "Jim" Allen was a Socialism playwright from England, best known for his collaborations with Ken Loach....
     (1926-1999) (United Kingdom)
  • Alejandro Rodriguez Alvarez
  • Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero [Serafin (1871-1938) and Joaquin (1873-1944)] (Spain)
  • Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik
  • Franco Ambriz
    Franco Ambriz

    Franco Ambriz is a playwright and Theatre director. His plays have been produced in New York and Los Angeles. He co-wrote Footsteps In The Dark with the late Iranian director Reza Abdoh for the 1990 Los Angeles Festival, artistic director Peter Sellars....
     Brooklyn, New York
  • Angelo Ambrogini
  • Denis Amiel (1884-1977) (France)


An-As
  • Jane Anderson
    Jane Anderson

    Jane Anderson is an American actress-turned-award-winning playwright, screenwriter and Film director. She has written and directed one feature film, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio ....
  • Maxwell Anderson
    Maxwell Anderson

    James Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist. He was a founding member of The Playwrights Company....
     (1888-1959) (United States)
  • Bo Anderson (1981-Present) (Alaska/United States)
  • Robert W. Anderson (born 1917) (United States)
  • Jorge Andrade
    Jorge Andrade

    Jorge Manuel Almeida Gomes de Andrade , Order of Infante D. Henrique, is a Portugal football defender , currently a free agent....
  • Stefan Andres
    Stefan Andres

    Stefan Paul Andres was a Germany novelist.He was a widely-read German writer in the post-World War II period....
     (1906-1970) (Germany)
  • Leonid Andreyev
    Leonid Andreyev

    Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was a Russian language playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionism in the national literature. He was active between the revolution of 1905 and the Communist revolution which finally overthrew the Tsarist government....
     (1871-1919) (Russia)
  • Lucius Livius Andronicus
    Livius Andronicus

    Lucius Livius Andronicus , not to be confused with the later historian Livy, was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poetry who produced the first Roman dramatic work and translated many Greek language works into Latin language....
  • Innokenty Fyodorovich Annensky (1856-1909) (Russia)
  • Jean Anouilh
    Jean Anouilh

    Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a France dramatist....
     (1910-1987) (France)
  • S. Ansky
    S. Ansky

    Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport , better known by the pseudonym S. Ansky , was a scholar who documented Jewish folklore and mystical beliefs.He was born in Vitebsk, Belarus, then a part of the Russian Empire, but travelled around much of the western part of the Russian Empire....
     (1863-1920) (Russia) *Russian language
    Russian language

    Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
     and Yiddish language
    Yiddish language

    Yiddish is a non-territorial High German languages of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. Unlike other such languages, Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet as opposed to a Latin alphabet....
    *
  • Camillo Antona-Traversi (1857-1934) (Italy)
  • Giannino Antona-Traversi (1860-1939) (Italy)
  • Ludwig Anzengruber
    Ludwig Anzengruber

    Ludwig Anzengruber was an Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet. He was born and died in Vienna....
     (1839-1889) (Austria)
  • Guillaume Apollinaire
    Guillaume Apollinaire

    Wilhelm Albert Wlodzimierz Apolinary de Waz-Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a France poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
     (1880-1918) (France)
  • Aleksei Nikolaevich Arbuzov (1908-1986) (Russia)
  • Manuel José Arce
    Manuel José Arce

    General Manuel Jos? Arce y Fagoaga was a decorated General and president of the Federal Republic of Central America from 1825 to 1829....
  • William Archibald
    William Archibald

    William Oliver Archibald was a member of the Australian House of Representatives and the South Australian House of Assembly.Early life...
     (1924-1970) (United States
  • Jane Arden (film-director) (1927-82)
  • John Arden
    John Arden

    John Arden is an award-winning English people playwright from Barnsley . His works tend to expose social issues of personal concern. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature....
     (born 1930) (England)
  • Arthur Arent (1904-1972) (United States)
  • Pietro Aretino
    Pietro Aretino

    Pietro Aretino was an Italy author, playwright, poet and satirist who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography....
     (1492-1556) (Italy)
  • Ludovico Ariosto
    Ludovico Ariosto

    Ludovico Ariosto was an Italians poet. He is best known as the author of the romance Epic poetry Orlando Furioso . The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Roland, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracen with divergents into many side plots....
     (1474-1533) (Italy)
  • Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a prolific and much acclaimed comedy playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays have come down to us virtually complete....
    , (ca. 446 B.C.-385 B.C.) (Greece)
  • Roberto Arlt
    Roberto Arlt

    Roberto Arlt was an Argentina writer born in Buenos Aires on April 2, 1900. His father was Karl Arlt and his mother, Ekatherine Iobstraibitzer....
  • Georges Arnaud (1917-1987) (France)
  • Carlos Arniches y Barrera (1866-1943) (Spain)
  • Alexandre Arnoux (1884-1973) (France)
  • Fernando Arrabal
    Fernando Arrabal

    File:Fernando Arrabal.jpgFernando Arrabal Ter?n is a Spanish authors Spanish playwright, Spanish cinema, film director, Spanish novelist and Spanish poet of Spanish people origin....
     (born 1932) (Spain)
  • Francisco Arriví
  • Antón Arrufat
  • Antonin Artaud
    Antonin Artaud

    Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud was a France playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine , and was among a long list of names which Artaud used throughout his life....
     (1896-1948) (France)
  • Sholem Asch
    Sholem Asch

    Sholem Asch born Szulim Asz , also written Shalom Asch was a Poland-born American Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language....
     (1880-1957) (Poland/United States) *Yiddish language
    Yiddish language

    Yiddish is a non-territorial High German languages of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. Unlike other such languages, Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet as opposed to a Latin alphabet....
    *
  • Werner Aspenstrom (1918-1997) (Sweden)


Au-Ay
  • Aubignac
  • David Auburn
    David Auburn

    David Auburn is an American playwright. He was born in Chicago, and raised in Ohio and Arkansas. He attended the University of Chicago, where he was a member of Off-Off Campus, and received a degree in English literature....
     (born 1969)
  • W. H. Auden
    W. H. Auden

    Wystan Hugh Auden who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century....
     (1907-1973) (England/United States)
  • Jacques Audiberti
    Jacques Audiberti

    Jacques Audiberti was a France playwright, poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd.He was born in Antibes, France. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine....
     (1899-1965) (France)
  • Emile Augier
    Émile Augier

    Guillaume Victor ?mile Augier was a French dramatist. He was the thirteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Acad?mie fran?aise on 31 March 1857....
     (1820-1889) (France)
  • Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko
    Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko

    Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko , was a Russian playwright and satire. He published his stories in the journal "Satyricon", of which he was also an editor, in the series of "New Satyricon", and other publications ? total of around 20 books....
  • Máximo Avilés-Blonda
  • George Axelrod
    George Axelrod

    George Axelrod was an United States screenwriter, Film producer, playwright and film director.Axelrod was born in New York City, New York, the son of Beatrice Carpenter, a silent film actress, and Herman Axelrod, who worked in real estate....
     (1922-2003) (United States)
  • Lilly Axster (1896-1948)
  • Mulat Ayalneh
  • Alan Ayckbourn
    Alan Ayckbourn

    Sir Alan Ayckbourn Order of the British Empire is a popular and prolific English playwright....
  • Philip Ayckbourn
    Philip Ayckbourn

    Philip Ayckbourn is an England actor, Theatre director and playwright.Ayckbourn trained for three years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art....
  • Marcel Aymé
    Marcel Aymé

    Marcel Aym? was a France novelist, children's writer , humour writer and also a movie and theater playwright....
     (1902-1967) (France)
  • Jacob Ayrer
  • Leslie Ayvazian


B


Ba-Bl
  • Ramvriksh Benipuri (1902-1968) India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
    , Hindi Language
  • Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (1894-1941) (Russia) *Russian language
    Russian language

    Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
     and Yiddish language
    Yiddish language

    Yiddish is a non-territorial High German languages of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. Unlike other such languages, Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet as opposed to a Latin alphabet....
    *
  • Ingeborg Bachmann
    Ingeborg Bachmann

    Ingeborg Bachmann was an Austrian poet and author....
  • Giuseppe Baffico (1852-1927) (Italy)
  • Bianca Bagatourian
  • Enid Bagnold
    Enid Bagnold

    Enid Bagnold, Lady Jones, Order of the British Empire , known by her maiden name as Enid Algerine Bagnold, was a British author and playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet which was filmed in 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor....
  • Hermann Bahr
    Hermann Bahr

    Hermann Bahr was an Austrian German literature, playwright, director, and critic....
     (1863-1934) (Austria)
  • George Pierce Baker
    George Pierce Baker

    George Pierce Baker , American educator in the field of drama.He graduated in the Harvard University class of 1887, and taught in the English Department at Harvard 1888?1924....
     (1866-1935) (United States)
  • John Lloyd Balderston
    John L. Balderston

    John L. Balderston was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts.Balderston began his career as a journalist....
     (1889-1954) (United States)
  • James Baldwin
    James Baldwin

    James Baldwin may refer to:*James Baldwin *James Baldwin *James Baldwin *J. Baldwin , industrial designer, author, educator*James Mark Baldwin , philosopher and psychologist...
     (1924-1987) (United States)
  • John Bale
    John Bale

    John Bale was an England churchman, historian and controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory. He wrote the oldest known historical verse drama in English , and developed and published a very extensive list of the works of British authors down to his own time, just as the monastic libraries were being dispersed....
     (1495-1563) (England)
  • Honoré de Balzac
    Honoré de Balzac

    Honor? de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a Novel sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Com?die humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napol?on Bonaparte in 1815....
     (1799-1850) (France)
  • Francisco Antonio Bances y López-Candamo
    Francisco Bances Candamo

    Francisco Bances Candamo ...
     (1662-1704) (Spain)
  • Théodore de Banville
    Théodore de Banville

    Th?odore Faullain de Banville was a France poet and writer....
     (1823-1891) (France)
  • Imamu Amiri Baraka (born 1934) (United States)
  • Girolamo Bargagli (1537-1586) (Italy)
  • Pierre Barillet (born 1923) (France)
  • Howard Barker
    Howard Barker

    Howard Barker is a United Kingdom playwright....
  • James Nelson Barker (1784-1858) (United States)
  • Ernst Barlach
    Ernst Barlach

    Ernst Barlach was a Germany Expressionism sculpture, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War I, his participation in the war made him change his position, and he is mostly known for his sculptures protesting against the war....
     (1870-1938) (Germany)
  • Peter Barnes
    Peter Barnes

    Peter Barnes, , was an England Laurence Olivier Awards-winning playwright and screenwriter. His most famous work is the play The Ruling Class, which was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination....
  • J. M. Barrie
    J. M. Barrie

    Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet Order of Merit , more commonly known as J. M. Barrie, was a Scotland author and dramatist. He is best remembered for creating Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, whom he based on his friends, the Llewelyn Davies boys....
     (1860-1937) (Scotland)
  • Jeff Baron
    Jeff Baron

    Jeff Baron is an award-winning playwright from New York. He grew up in New Jersey and currently lives in Manhattan. He has a degree in film production from Northwestern University and an M.B.A....
  • Mike Bartlett
    Mike Bartlett

    Michael Fredrick Bartlett, is an emerging England playwright and theatre director. He is also co-artistic director of . Bartlett's work has been performed in British theatre and by BBC radio....
  • Philip Barry
    Philip Barry

    Philip Jerome Quinn Barry was an United States playwright. Though most known for his comedy about manners, he also wrote serious dramas, often on religion Theme ....
     (1896-1949) (United States)
  • Gabriel Barylli
  • Peter Basch
    Peter Basch

    Peter Basch was a prominent magazine and glamour photography who lived in New York City. The main body of his work was produced in the fifties and sixties....
  • Todd Bash
    Todd Bash

    Todd Bash is an avant-garde playwright from Los Angeles, California.He has written more than twenty works for the theatre, many performed and published, as well as prose, poetry and film projects....
  • Enrico Bassano (1899-1999) (Italy)
  • Henri Bataille (1872-1922) (France)
  • Wolfgang Bauer
    Wolfgang Bauer

    Wolfgang Bauer was an Austrian writer best known as a playwright who, particularly in his younger days, was regarded as an enfant terrible by the Austrian cultural The Establishment....
  • L. Frank Baum
    L. Frank Baum

    Lyman Frank Baum was an United States author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker, best known today as the creator, along with illustrator W....
     (1856-1919) (United States)
  • Terry Baum
  • Bahram Bayzaee (Iran)
  • Clifford Bax
    Clifford Bax

    Clifford Bax was a versatile English writer, known particularly as a playwright, a journalist, critic and editor, and a poet, lyricist and hymn writer....
     (1886-1962) (England)
  • Richard Bean
    Richard Bean

    Richard Bean, born in East Kingston upon Hull in 1956, is an England playwright....
     (born 1956) (England)
  • Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) (France)
  • Francis Beaumont
    Francis Beaumont

    Francis Beaumont was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher .Beaumont was the son of Sir Francis Beaumont of Grace-Dieu, Leicestershire, a justice of the Court of Common Pleas ....
     (1584/85-1616) (England)
  • Jim Beaver
    Jim Beaver

    James Norman Beaver, Jr. is an United States stage, film, and television actor, a playwright, screenwriter, and film historian, who uses the professional name Jim Beaver....
     (United States)
  • Ulrich Becher
    Ulrich Becher

    Ulrich Becher was a Germany author and playwright....
     (1910-1990) (Germany)
  • Frawley Becker (United States)
  • Jürgen Becker
  • Jurek Becker
    Jurek Becker

    Jurek Becker was a Poland-born Germany writer, film-author and GDR dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films....
  • Samuel Beckett
    Samuel Beckett

    Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish people writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalism....
     (1906-1989) (Ireland) *English language
    English language

    English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
     and French language
    French language

    French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
    *
  • Henry Becque
    Henry Becque

    Henry Fran?ois Becque , France dramatist, was born in Lille.In 1867, he wrote, in imitation of Lord Byron, the libretto for Victorin de Jonci?res 's opera Sardanapale, but his first important work, Michel Pauper, appeared in 1870....
     (1837-1899) (France)
  • Richard Beer-Hofmann
    Richard Beer-Hofmann

    Richard Beer-Hofmann was an Austrian dramatist and poet.After the early death of his mother, Beer-Hofmann was raised by his aunt's family in Brno and Vienna....
     (1866-1945) (Austria)
  • Brendan Behan
    Brendan Behan

    Brendan Francis Behan was an Irish literature poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also a committed Irish Republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army ....
     (1923-1964) (Ireland)
  • Aphra Behn
    Aphra Behn

    Aphra Behn was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English people professional female writers. Her writing participated in the amatory fiction genre of British literature....
     (1640-1689) (England)
  • S. N. Behrman
    S. N. Behrman

    Samuel N. Behrman was an American playwright and screenwriter, who also worked for the New York Times.In the 1930s and 1940s, he was considered one of Broadway's leading authors of "high comedy", and wrote for such stars as Ina Claire, Katharine Cornell, Jane Cowl, and the acting team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne....
     (1893-1973) (United States)
  • David Belasco
    David Belasco

    David Belasco was an United States of America playwright, impresario, theatre director and theatrical producer....
     (1853-1931) (United States)
  • Feo Belcari (1410-1484) (Italy)
  • Wendy Belden
  • T. James Belich (pseudonym: Colorado Tolston
    Colorado Tolston

    T. James Belich , is an American playwright and actor. He is the author of a dozen new and original Play in genres that include Mystery fiction, fantasy, religious, and children's....
    ) (b. 1976) (United States)
  • Jean Bellemère
  • Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez
    Luis Belmonte Bermúdez

    Luis Belmonte Berm?dez was a playwright of the Spanish Golden Age.es:Luis Belmonte Berm?dez...
     (ca. 1590-ca. 1650) (Spain)
  • Jacinto Benavente
    Jacinto Benavente

    Jacinto Benavente y Mart?nez was one of the foremost Spain dramatists of the 20th century.Born in Madrid, the son of a celebrated pediatrician, he returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose, melodrama to comedy, formula to experience, impulsive action to dialogue and the play of minds....
     (1866-1954) (Spain)
  • Sem Benelli
    Sem Benelli

    Sem Benelli was an Italy playwright and libretto who provided the texts for several noted Italian operas, including Italo Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re and L'incantesimo, and Umberto Giordano's Le cena delle beffe....
     (1877-1949) (Italy)
  • Gottfried Benn
    Gottfried Benn

    Gottfried Benn was a Germany essayist, novelist, and expressionist poet. A doctor of medicine, he became an early admirer, and later a critic, of the National Socialist German Workers Party revolution....
  • Alan Bennett
    Alan Bennett

    Alan Bennett is an English author, actor, humorist and playwright....
  • Arnold Bennett
    Arnold Bennett

    Enoch Arnold Bennett was an England novelist....
     (1867-1931) (England)
  • Angelo Beolco
    Angelo Beolco

    Angelo Beolco , better known by the nickname Il Ruzzante or el Ruzante, was a Venetian actor and playwright.He is known by his rustic comedies in the Venetian language of Padua, featuring a peasant called "Ruzzante"....
  • Hjalmar Bergman
    Hjalmar Bergman

    Hjalmar Fredrik Elg?rus Bergman was a Sweden writer and playwright.The son of a banker in ?rebro, Bergman studied at Uppsala University. He married the daughter of actor and producer August Lindberg....
     (1883-1931) (Sweden)
  • Alan Berks
  • Jean-Jacques Bernard (1888-1972) (France)
  • Tristan Bernard
    Tristan Bernard

    Tristan Bernard was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer....
     (1866-1947) (France)
  • Jean Bernard-Luc (1909-1985) (France)
  • Henry Bernstein (1876-1953) (France)
  • Georges Berr (1867-1942) (France)
  • Carlo Bertolazzi (1870-1916) (Italy)
  • Kurt Besci (born 1920) (Austria)
  • Rudolph Besier (1878-1942) (England)
  • Lucien Besnard (1872-1955) (France)
  • Ugo Betti
    Ugo Betti

    Ugo Betti was an Italy judge, better known as an author, who is considered by many the greatest Italian playwright next to Luigi Pirandello.Betti studied law in Parma at the time when World War I broke out, and he volunteered as a soldier....
     (1892-1953) (Italy)
  • Bernardo Dovizio da Bibbiena (1470-1520) (Italy)
  • Isaac Bickerstaffe
    Isaac Bickerstaffe

    Isaac Bickerstaffe or Bickerstaff was an Irish playwright. He was in early life a page to Lord Chesterfield when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland....
     (1735-1812) (Ireland)
  • Sieur de Bigot
  • François Billetdoux
    François Billetdoux

    Fran?ois Billetdoux was a France dramatic author and novelist. His works describe the world with a fierce humor of a somewhat burlesque style, which sometimes turns into black humor....
     (1927-1991) (France)
  • Richard Billinger (1893-1965) (Austria)
  • André Birabeau (1890-1974) (France)
  • Robert Montgomery Bird
    Robert Montgomery Bird

    Robert Montgomery Bird was an United States novelist, playwright, photographer, and physician....
     (1806-1854) (United States)
  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832-1910) (Norway
    Norway

    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
    )
  • Lewis Black
    Lewis Black

    Lewis Niles Black is a Grammy Award-winning United States stand-up comedy, author, playwright and actor. He is known for his comedy style which often includes simulating a mental breakdown or an increasingly angry rant, ridiculing history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena....
    (United States)
  • August Blanche
  • Dharamvir Bharati
    Dharamvir Bharati

    Dr. Dharamvir Bharati ,one of the most renowned Hindi poet,modern writer,playwright and social thinkers of India.He was the Chief-Editor of the popular Hindi weekly magazine Dharmayug....
  • Marc Blitzstein
    Marc Blitzstein

    Marc Blitzstein was an United States composer.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania to Jewish parents, among his works were The Cradle Will Rock, whose premiere was directed by Orson Welles, the opera Regina , an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, the Broadway theatre Musical theater Juno based on...
     (1905-1964) (United States)
  • Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880-1921) (Russia)


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  • Augusto Boal


  • Eric Bogosian
    Eric Bogosian

    Eric Bogosian is an United States actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist....
  • George H. Boker (1823-1890) (United States)
  • Robert Bolt
    Robert Bolt

    Robert Oxton Bolt, Order of the British Empire was an English people playwright and a two-time Academy Award winning screenwriter.Career...
     (1924-1995) (England)
  • Valentino Bompiani
    Valentino Bompiani

    Valentino Silvio Bompiani was an Italy publisher, writer and playwright.Born in Ascoli Piceno , in 1929 he founded the publishing house carrying his name, which became one of the most important in Italy....
     (1898-1992) (Italy)
  • Francesco Augusto Bon (1788-1858) (Italy)
  • Edward Bond
    Edward Bond

    Edward Bond is an England playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of the play Saved , the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the United Kingdom....
  • Massimo Bontempelli
    Massimo Bontempelli

    Massimo Bontempelli was an Italy poet, playwright, and novelist. He was influential in developing and promoting the literary style known as magic realism....
     (1878-1960) (Italy)
  • Clare Boothe (1903-1987) (United States)
  • Wolfgang Borchert
    Wolfgang Borchert

    Wolfgang Borchert was a Germany author and playwright whose work was affected by his experience of dictatorship and his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War....
     (1921-1947) (Germany)
  • Dion Boucicault
    Dion Boucicault

    Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot was an Irish people actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English speaking theatre, eventually heralded by The New York Times in his o...
     (1820/22-1890) (Ireland/United States)
  • Jacques Bouralan
  • Édouard Bourdet
    Edouard Bourdet

    ?douard Bourdet , was a France playwright.Bourdet was born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, and died in Paris....
     (1887-1945) (France)
  • Edme Boursault
    Edmé Boursault

    Edm? Boursault was a France dramatist and miscellaneous writer, born at Mussy l'Ev?que, now Mussy-sur-Seine .On his first arrival in Paris in 1651 his language was limited to Burgundian language, but within a year he produced his first comedy, Le Mon vivant....
     (1638-1701) (France)
  • John Griffith Bowen
    John Griffith Bowen

    John Griffith Bowen is a British playwright and novelist. He was born in Calcutta, British India, studied at the University of Oxford and worked in publishing, drama and television....
  • Warren Bowles
  • William Boyle (1853-1923) (Ireland)
  • Oskar Braaten
    Oskar Braaten

    Oskar Braaten was a Norwegian novelist and playwright, born in Oslo . Braaten is best-known for his popular plays and novels depicting the life of factory workers and other low class women alongside Akerselva in Oslo, published 1906-1937....
  • Roberto Bracco (1861-1943) (Italy)
  • Suzanne Bradbeer
  • Vitaliano Brancati
    Vitaliano Brancati

    Vitaliano Brancati was an Italy writer. He was born in Pachino and died in Turin. In 1950 he won the Bagutta Prize.Selected filmography...
     (1907-1954) (Italy)
  • Thomas Brasch
    Thomas Brasch

    Thomas Brasch was a Germany author, poet and film director....
  • Volker Braun
    Volker Braun

    Volker Braun is a Germany writer. His works include Provokation f?r mich -- a collection of poems written between 1959 and 1964 and published in 1965, a play, Die Kipper , and Das ungezwungne Leben Kasts ....
  • Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht

    was a Germany poet, playwright, and theatre director. An influential theatre practitioner of the Twentieth-century theatre, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and Theatre, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble?the post-war theatre company operated by Brec...
     (1898-1956) (Germany)
  • Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero
    Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero

    Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero was a Netherlands poet and playwright in the period known as the Dutch Golden Age....
     (1585-1618)
  • Howard Brenton
    Howard Brenton

    Howard John Brenton is an English playwright. He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on 13 December, 1942, son of Donald Henry Brenton and his wife Rose Lilian ....
  • Manuel Bretón de los Herreros
    Manuel Bretón de los Herreros

    Manuel Bret?n de los Herreros was a Spanish dramatist, educated at Madrid. Enlisting on 24 May 1812, he served against the France in Valencia and Catalonia, and retired with the rank of corporal on 8 March 1822....
     (1796-1873) (Spain)
  • James Bridie
    James Bridie

    James Bridie was thne pseudonym of a Scottish people playwright, screenwriter and surgery whose real name was Osborne Henry Mavor.He studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, then he served as a military doctor during World War I, seeing time in France and Mesopotamia....
     (1888-1951) (Scotland)
  • Eugène Brieux
    Eugène Brieux

    Eug?ne Brieux , France dramatist, was born in Paris of poor parents.A one-act play, Bernard Palissy, written in collaboration with M. Gaston Salandri, was produced in 1879, but he had to wait eleven years before he obtained another hearing, his M?nage d'artistes being produced by Andr? Antoine at the Th??tre Libre in 1890....
     (1858-1932) (France)
  • Harold Brighouse
    Harold Brighouse

    Harold Brighouse was an English playwright and author whose best known play is Hobson's Choice. He was a prominent member, together with Allan Monkhouse and Stanley Houghton, of a group known as the Manchester School of dramatists....
     (1882-1958) (England)
  • Hermann Broch
    Hermann Broch

    Hermann Broch was a 20th century Austrian writer, considered one of the major Modernisms....
  • Max Brod
    Max Brod

    Max Brod was an Austria-Hungary-Jewish author, composer, and journalist, known for his close friendship with Franz Kafka....
     (1884-1968) (Czech Republic/Israel
    Israel

    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
    ) *German language
    German language

    German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
    *
  • Richard Brome
    Richard Brome

    Richard Brome was an English dramatist of the Literature in English#Caroline and Cromwellian literature era....
     (ca. 1590-1652/53) (England)
  • Arnolt Bronnen
    Arnolt Bronnen

    Arnolt Bronnen born 19 August 1895 in Wien, died 12 October 1959 in East Berlin was an Austria playwright and Theatre director.Bronnen's most famous play is Parricide ; the production of which that year is notable, among other things, for being that from which Bronnen's friend, the young Bertolt Brecht in an early stage of his directin...
     (1895-1959) (Austria)
  • Kent R. Brown
    Kent R. Brown

    Dr. Kent R. Brown is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and former Playwright-In-Residence and Adjunct Professor of English at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut....
  • Robert Browning
    Robert Browning

    Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian literature poets....
     (1812-1889) (England)
  • Ferdinand Bruckner
    Ferdinand Bruckner

    Ferdinand Bruckner was an Austria-German writer and theater manager....
     (1891-1958) (Austria)
  • Christine Brückner
  • David-Augustin de Brueys (1640-1723) (France)
  • Nathan Bruhn
  • Giordano Bruno
    Giordano Bruno

    Giordano Bruno, born Filippo Bruno , was an Italy philosopher best-known as a proponent of heliocentrism and the infinity of the universe. In addition to his cosmological writings, he also wrote extensive works on the art of memory, a loosely-organized group of mnemonic techniques and principles....
     (1548-1600) (Italy)
  • Alfred Brust
  • Georg Büchner
    Georg Büchner

    Karl Georg B?chner was a German people dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig B?chner. B?chner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany....
     (1813-1837) (Germany)
  • Duke of Buckingham
    Duke of Buckingham

    The titles Marquess and Duke of Buckingham, referring to Buckingham, have been created several times in the peerages of Peerage of England, Peerage of Great Britain, and the Peerage of the United Kingdom....
     
  • Antonio Buero Vallejo
    Antonio Buero Vallejo

    Antonio Buero Vallejo was a Spain playwright considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War. During his career he won three National Theatre Prizes , a National Theatre Prize for all his career in 1980, the National Literature Prize in 1996, and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Spain's highest literary honour, in 198...
     (1916-2000) (Spain)
  • Oliver Bukowski
  • Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940) (Russia)
  • Edward Bullins (1935- )(United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    )
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

    Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton was an England novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy...
     (1803-1873) (England)
  • Michelangelo Buonarotti, the Younger (1568-1642) (Italy)
  • Waldfried Burggraf
  • John Burkhardt
  • Leo Butler
    Leo Butler

    Leo Butler is a British playwright. He graduated from the Royal Court Theatre's young writers' scheme . He is active since 2000, when he was described as one of the "Great British Hopes"....
     (1974) England
  • Enrico Annibale Butti (1868-1912) (Italy)
  • George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) (England)
  • Henry James Byron
    Henry James Byron

    Henry James Byron was a prolific English people dramatist, as well as an editor, journalist, director, theatre manager, novelist and actor.After an abortive start at a medical career, Byron struggled as a provincial actor and aspiring playwright in the 1850s....


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  • Emilio Carballido
    Emilio Carballido

    Emilio Carballido was a Mexico writer who earned particular renown as a playwright.Carballido belonged to the group of writers known as the Generaci?n de los 50, alongside such figures as Sergio Maga?a, Luisa Josefina Hern?ndez, Rosario Castellanos, Jaime Sabines, and Sergio Galindo....
     1925-2008 (Mexico)
  • Gaston de Caillavet (1869-1915) (France)
  • Hall Caine
    Hall Caine

    Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire , usually known as Hall Caine, was a United Kingdom author....
     (1853-1931) (England)
  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca

    Pedro Calder?n de la Barca y Henao , was a dramatist of the Spain Spanish Golden Age....
     (1600-1681) (Spain)
  • Daniel Call
  • Sheila Callaghan
    Sheila Callaghan

    Sheila Callaghan is a New York City-based playwright who emerged from the RAT movement of the 1990s. Her work is considered to be part of the downtown theater scene, and is known for its unusual use of language and narrative structure....
  • Joaquín Calvo-Sotelo (1905-1993) (Spain)
  • Marc Camoletti
  • Bartley Campbell
    Bartley Campbell

    Bartley T. Campbell was an United States playwright of the latter 19th century....
  • David Campton
    David Campton

    David Campton was a prolific United Kingdom dramatist who wrote plays for the stage, radio, and cinema for thirty-five years. "He was one of the first British dramatists to write in the style of the Theatre of the Absurd"....
     (born 1924) (England)
  • Albert Camus
    Albert Camus

    Albert Camus was an Algerian-born France author, Philosophy, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize in 1957. He is often associated with existentialism, but Camus refused this label....
     (1913-1960) (France)
  • Carlos Canales (1955) (Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico

    Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
    )
  • Elias Canetti
    Elias Canetti

    Elias Canetti was a Bulgarian-born novelist of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German language and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981....
  • Veza Canetti
  • José de Cañizares
    José de Cañizares

    Jos? de Ca?izares y Su?rez was a Spain playwright. Cavalry officer, public official, and author of around one hundred works, he was one of the most important dramatists of the early eighteenth century....
     (1676-1750) (Spain)
  • Cao Yu
    Cao Yu

    Cao Yu , born as Wan Jiabao , was a renowned China playwright, often regarded as China's most important of the 20th century. His most well-known works are Thunderstorm , Sunrise and Peking Man ....
  • Karel Capek
    Karel Capek

    Dr. 'Karel Capek' was one of the most influential Czech language writers of the 20th century. He introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R....
     (1890-1938) (Czech Republic)
  • Luigi Capuana
    Luigi Capuana

    Luigi Capuana was an Italian author and journalist and one of the most important members of the Verism movement. He was a contemporary of Giovanni Verga, both having been born in the province of Province of Catania within a year of each other....
     (1839-1915) (Italy)
  • Alfred Capus
    Alfred Capus

    Alfred Capus was a France journalist and playwright, born in Aix-en-Provence and deceased in Neuilly-sur-Seine....
     (1858-1922) (France)
  • Ion Luca Caragiale
    Ion Luca Caragiale

    Ion Luca Caragiale was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. Leaving behind an important Ion Luca Caragiale's cultural legacy, he is considered one of the greatest playwrights in Romanian language and Literature of Romania, as well as one of its most important...
     (1852-1912) (Romania)
  • Louis Carette
  • Annibale Caro
    Annibale Caro

    Annibale Caro was an Italian language poet....
     (1507-1566) (Italy)
  • Alice Caroline
  • Paul Vincent Carroll (1900-1968) (Ireland/Scotland)
  • Jim Cartwright
    Jim Cartwright

    Jim Cartwright is an English dramatist.Cartwright was born to Jim Cartwright and Edna Main at Farnworth, Lancashire, England. He trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama....
  • Alberto Casella (1891-1957) (Italy)
  • Alejandro Casona
    Alejandro Casona

    Alejandro Rodr?guez ?lvarez, known as Alejandro Casona was a Spain poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27....
     (1903-1965) (Spain)
  • Guillén de Castro y Bellvís
    Guillén de Castro y Bellvis

    Guill?n de Castro y Bellvis , was a Spain dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.A Valencia n by birth, he soon achieved a literary reputation. In 1591 he joined a local literary academy called the Nocturnos....
     (1569-1631) (Spain)
  • Enrico Cavacchioli (1885-1954) (Italy)
  • Giovan Maria Cecchi (1518-1587) (Italy)
  • Susannah Centlivre (ca. 1667-1723) (England)
  • Miguel de Cervantes
    Miguel de Cervantes

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel by many, is a classic of Western literature and is regularly regarded among the best novels ever written....
     (1547-1616) (Spain)
  • George Chapman
    George Chapman

    George Chapman was an England dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar, and his work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been identified as the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Minto, and as an anticipator of the Metaphysical Poets....
     (ca. 1560-1634) (England)
  • Charlotte Charke
    Charlotte Charke

    Charlotte Charke was an English people actress, playwright, novelist, autobiographer, and noted transvestite. She acted on the stage from the age of 17, mainly in breeches roles, and took to wearing male clothing off the stage....
     (1713-1760)
  • Mary Coyle Chase
    Mary Coyle Chase

    Mary Coyle Chase was an American journalist, playwright and screenwriter, known primarily for writing the Broadway play Harvey , later adapted for film starring James Stewart ....
     (1907-1981) (United States)
  • Klaus Chatten
  • Paddy Chayefsky
    Paddy Chayefsky

    Sidney Aaron Chayefski known as Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist and novelist who made a transition from the Golden Age of Television in the 1950s to a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter....
     (1923-1981) (United States)
  • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) (Russia)
  • Andrew Cherry
    Andrew Cherry

    Andrew Cherry was an Ireland dramatist, songwriter, actor and theatre manager.The son of a bookseller at Limerick, Ireland, Cherry was a successful actor, and managed theatres in the provinces....
     (1762-1812)
  • Luigi Chiarelli
    Luigi Chiarelli

    Luigi Chiarelli was an Italian people playwright, theatre critic, and writer of short stories who is chiefly known as a founder of the teatro grottesco, or Theatre of the Grotesque, after the subtitle of one of his plays....
     (1880-1947) (Italy)
  • Chikamatsu Monzaemon
    Chikamatsu Monzaemon

    Chikamatsu Monzaemon was a Japanese dramatist of Joruri, the form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, and the live-actor drama, kabuki....
     (1653-1725) (Japan)
  • Hans Chlumberg (1897-1930) (Austria)
  • Jerome Chodorov
    Jerome Chodorov

    Jerome Chodorov was a playwright and librettist....
     (1911-2004) (United States)
  • Agatha Christie
    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire , commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English people crime writer of novels, short stories and Play ....
     (1890-1976) (England)
  • David W. Christner
  • Caryl Churchill
    Caryl Churchill

    Caryl Churchill is an England dramatist known for her use of non-Naturalism techniques and feminist themes. She is acknowledged as a major playwright in the English language and a leading female writer....
  • Colley Cibber
    Colley Cibber

    Colley Cibber was a British actor-manager, playwright, and Poet laureate#British_Poets_Laureate. His colourful memoir Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber started a British tradition of personal, anecdotal, and even rambling autobiography....
     (1671-1757) (England)
  • Giovanni Battista Cini (ca. 1525-1586) (Italy)
  • Paul Claudel
    Paul Claudel

    Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculpture Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholic faith....
     (1868-1955) (France)
  • Jean Cocteau
    Jean Cocteau

    Jean Maurice Eug?ne Cl?ment Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en sc?ne language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde....
     (1889-1963) (France)
  • Antonio Coello y Ochoa (1611-1652) (Spain)
  • George M. Cohan
    George M. Cohan

    George Michael Cohan , known publicly as George M. Cohan, was an United States entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, Film director, and Theatrical producer....
     (1878-1942) (United States)
  • Harry Cohen
    Harry Cohen

    Harry Michael Cohen is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Member of Parliament for Leyton and Wanstead ....
  • George Colman the Elder
    George Colman the Elder

    George Colman was an England dramatist and essayist, usually called "the Elder", and sometimes "George the First", to distinguish him from his son, George Colman the Younger....
     (1732-1794) (England)
  • John Colton
    John Colton

    Sir John Colton Order of St Michael and St George was an Australian politician, Premier of South Australia and philanthropist.Colton, the son of William Colton, a farmer, was born in Devonshire, England....
     (1889-1946) (United States/England)
  • Padraic Colum
    Padraic Colum

    Padraic Colum was an Ireland poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival....
     (1881-1972) (Ireland/United States)
  • Pat Condell
    Pat Condell

    Pat Condell is an English stand-up comedy, writer, and Internet celebrity. An outspoken atheist, Condell hosts a series of widely-viewed short video monologues denouncing religion....
     (England)
  • William Congreve
    William Congreve

    William Congreve was an England playwright and poet....
     (1670-1729) (England)
  • Marc Connelly
    Marc Connelly

    Marcus Cook Connelly was an American playwright, director, producer, performer, and lyricist. He was a key member of the Algonquin Round Table, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930....
     (1890-1980) (United States)
  • Robert Taylor Conrad (1810-1858) (United States)
  • Michael Cook
    Michael Cook

    Michael Cook was a Canadian playwrightBorn in Fulham, London, England, Cook settled in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, in 1965 after serving several years in the British Army, mostly in Asia....
  • Ray Cooney
    Ray Cooney

    Raymond George Alfred Cooney, Order of the British Empire is an English playwright and actor. His biggest success, Run For Your Wife, lasted nine years in London's West End theatre and is its longest-running comedy....
  • Romain Coolus (1868-1952) (France)
  • Antonia Cousins (England)
  • Jacques Copeau
    Jacques Copeau

    Jacques Copeau was an influential French people theatre director, producer, actor, and dramatist. Before he founded his famous Th??tre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris, he wrote theater reviews for several Parisian journals, worked at the Georges Petit Gallery where he organized exhibits of artists' works and helped found the Nouvelle Revue Fran...
     (1879-1949) (France)
  • François Coppée
    François Coppée

    Fran?ois Edouard Joachim Copp?e , was a France poet and novelist....
     (1842-1908) (France)
  • Pierre Corneille
    Pierre Corneille

    File:Pierre Corneille 3.jpgPierre Corneille was a French tragedy who was one of the three great seventeenth Century French dramatists, along with Moli?re and Jean Racine....
     (1606-1684) (France)
  • Thomas Corneille
    Thomas Corneille

    Thomas Corneille was a French dramatist. He was the brother of Pierre Corneille.Born in Rouen nearly twenty years after his brother, the "great Corneille", Thomas's skill as a poet seems to have shown itself early....
     (1625-1709) (France)
  • Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
    Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas

    Jorge Ignacio Corti?as is an American playwright. He first studied playwrighting with Octavio Solis, Cherr?e Moraga and Mar?a Irene Forn?s. He received an MFA from Brown University and currently lives in New York....
     (United States)
  • Pietro Cossa
    Pietro Cossa

    Pietro Cossa , Italy dramatist, was born at Rome, and claimed descent from the family of Pope John XXIII, deposed by the council of Constance....
     (1830-1881) (Italy)
  • Georges Courteline
    Georges Courteline

    Georges Courteline was a France dramatist and novelist.Born Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux, in Tours in the Indre-et-Loire d?partement, his family moved to Paris, France shortly after his birth....
     (1858-1929) (France)
  • Noel Coward
    Noël Coward

    Sir No?l Peirce Coward was an English people playwright, composer, Theatre director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise"....
     (1899-1973) (England)
  • Louis O. Coxe
    Louis O. Coxe

    Louis Osborne Coxe was an American poet, playwright, essayist, and professor who was recognized by the Academy of American Poets for his "long, powerful, quiet accomplishment, largely unrecognized, in lyric poetry." He was probably best known for his dramatic adaptation of Herman Melville's Billy Budd, which opened on Broadway theatre in 195...
     (1918-1993) (United States)
  • Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
    Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

    Prosper Jolyot de Cr?billon , was a France poet and tragedy....
     (1674-1762) (France)
  • Michael Cristofer
    Michael Cristofer

    Michael Ivan Cristofer is an American playwright and filmmaker. He received Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977....
  • Francis de Croisset
    Francis de Croisset

    Francis de Croisset was a Belgium-born France playwright and opera librettist.His opera librettos include Massenet's Ch?rubin , based on his play of the same name, and Reynaldo Hahn's Ciboulette ....
     (1877-1937) (France)
  • Fernand Crommelynck
    Fernand Crommelynck

    Fernand Crommelynck was a Belgium dramatist. He was born into a family of actors, the child of a French mother and a Belgian father and he himself was also an actor....
     (1885-1970) (Belgium/France) *French language
    French language

    French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
    *
  • A. J. Cronin
    A. J. Cronin

    Archibald Joseph Cronin was a Scotland novelist, dramatist and writer of non-fiction who was one of the most renowned storytellers of the twentieth century....
     (1896-1981) (Scotland)
  • Rachel Crothers
    Rachel Crothers

    Rachel Crothers was a prolific and successful American playwright and theater director, known for her well-crafted Play . One of the most famous was Susan and God , which was made into a film by MGM in 1940 starring Joan Crawford and Frederic March....
     (1878-1958) (United States)
  • Russel Crouse
    Russel Crouse

    Russel Crouse was an American playwright and librettist, best known for his work in the Broadway theatre writing partnership of Lindsay and Crouse....
     (1893-1966) (United States)
  • Mart Crowley
    Mart Crowley

    Mart Crowley is an United States playwright.Crowley was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. After graduating from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C....
     (born 1935) (United States)
  • John Crowne
    John Crowne

    John Crowne was a Kingdom of Great Britain dramatist and a native of Nova Scotia.His father "Colonel" William Crowne, accompanied the Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Surrey on a diplomatic mission to Vienna in 1637, and wrote an account of his journey....
     (ca. 1640-ca. 1703) (England)
  • Nilo Cruz
    Nilo Cruz

    Nilo Cruz is an Cuban-American playwright and pedagogue. With his award of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play, Anna in the Tropics, he became the first Latino so honored....
  • Ramón de la Cruz
    Ramón de la Cruz

    Ram?n de la Cruz , Spain Spanish Enlightenment literature dramatist, was born at Madrid.He was a clerk in the ministry of finance, and is the author of three hundred sainetes, little farcical sketches of city life, written to be played between the acts of a longer play....
     (1731-1794) (Spain)
  • Gergely Csíky (1842-1891) (Hungary
    Hungary

    Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
    )
  • Franz Theodor Csokor (1885-1969) (Austria)
  • Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón
    Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón

    ?lvaro Cubillo de Arag?n was a playwright of the Spanish Golden Age....
     (1596-1661) (Spain)
  • Juan de la Cueva
    Juan de la Cueva

    Juan de la Cueva was a Spain dramatist and poet.He was born in Seville of an aristocratic family.Towards 1579, he began writing for the stage....
     (ca. 1550-1610) (Spain)
  • Richard Cumberland
    Richard Cumberland

    Richard Cumberland may refer to:* Richard Cumberland , bishop, philosopher* Richard Cumberland , civil servant, dramatist...
     (1732-1811) (England)
  • E. E. Cummings
    E. E. Cummings

    Edward Estlin Cummings , popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an Poetry of the United States, painter, essayist, author, and playwright....
     (1894-1962) (United States)
  • François de Curel (1854-1928) (France)
  • Stephen Currens


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  • Stig Dagerman
    Stig Dagerman

    Stig Dagerman was a Sweden author and journalist.Stig Dagerman was one of the most prominent Swedish authors during the 1940s. In the course of five years, 1945-49, he enjoyed phenomenal success with four novels, a collection of short stories, a book about postwar Germany, five plays, hundreds of poems and satirical verses, several essays...
     (1923-1954) (Sweden)
  • George Dalton
    George Dalton

    George Dalton is an United States playwright. He was born in Pana, Illinois. He lived in the rural countryside of Illinois until the ninth grade when he moved with his parents to California....
  • Augustin Daly (1838-1899) (United States)
  • Florent Carton Dancourt
    Florent Carton Dancourt

    Florent Carton Dancourt , France dramatist and actor, was born at Fontainebleau. He belonged to a family of rank, and his parents entrusted his education to Pere de la Rue, a Jesuit, who made earnest efforts to induce him to join the order....
     (1661-1725) (France)
  • Clemence Dane
    Clemence Dane

    File:Clemence Dane 01.jpgClemence Dane was the pseudonym of Winifred Ashton , an English novelist and playwright....
     (1888-1965) (England)
  • Gabriele D'Annunzio
    Gabriele D'Annunzio

    Gabriele d'Annunzio was an Italy poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and daredevil who went on to have a controversial role in politics as an influence on the Italian Fascist movement and the alleged forerunner of Benito Mussolini....
     (1863-1938) (Italy)
  • Alphonse Daudet
    Alphonse Daudet

    Alphonse Daudet was a France novelist. He was the father of L?on Daudet and Lucien Daudet....
     (1840-1897) (France)
  • William Davenant
    William Davenant

    Sir William Davenant , also spelled D'Avenant, was an England poet and playwright. Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Literature in English#Caroline and Cromwellian literature and Literature in English#Restoration literature eras, and who was a...
     (1606-1668) (England)
  • Robertson Davies
    Robertson Davies

    William Robertson Davies, Order of Canada, Royal Society of Canada, Royal Society of Literature was a Canada novelist, theatre, criticism, journalism, and professor....
     (1913-1995) (Canada)
  • Jack Davis
    Jack Davis (playwright)

    Jack Davis , was a notable Australian 20th Century playwright and poet, also an Indigenous Australians rights campaigner. He was born in Western Australia, in the small town of Yarloop, Western Australia, and lived in Fremantle, Western Australia towards the end of his life....
     (1917-2000) (Australia)
  • Ossie Davis
    Ossie Davis

    Ossie Davis was an American film actor, film director, poet, playwright, writer, and activism....
     (1917–2005) (United States)
  • Owen Davis
    Owen Davis

    Owen Gould Davis, Sr. was an American dramatist. He received the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1923 play Icebound, and penned hundreds of plays and scripts for radio and film....
     (1874-1956) (United States)
  • Roxann Dawson
    Roxann Dawson

    Roxann Dawson is an United States actor, television producer and television director, best known as B'Elanna Torres on the television series Star Trek: Voyager....
  • Frederic Lansing Day
    Frederic Lansing Day

    Frederic Lansing Day was an American playwright b. 1886 in Boston, Massachusetts d. 1982 in New Hampshire. Frederic Day the son of H.B. Day the founder of the Day Trust Company was a Socialist and Unitarianism....
     (1886-1982) (United States}
  • April De Angelis (England)
  • Erin Deen (1993-) (United States)
  • Eduardo De Filippo
    Eduardo De Filippo

    Eduardo De Filippo was an Italian actor, playwright, screenwriter, author and poet, best known for his Italian dialects works Filumena Marturano and Napoli Milionaria....
     (1900-1984) (Italy)
  • Thomas Dekker (ca. 1572-1632) (England)
  • Bobby Del Rio (1977 - present) (Canada)
  • Shelagh Delaney
    Shelagh Delaney

    Shelagh Delaney , is a United Kingdom playwright, best known for her debut work, A Taste Of Honey.Born in Broughton, Greater Manchester, Salford, Lancashire, she attended three different primary schools....
     (born 1939) (England)
  • Casimir-Jean-François Delavigne
    Casimir Delavigne

    Jean-Fran?ois Casimir Delavigne , was a France poet and dramatist....
     (1793-1843) (France)
  • Barbu Delavrancea (1858-1918) (Romania
    Romania

    Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
    )
  • Giambattista Della Porta
    Giambattista della Porta

    Giambattista della Porta , also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, and John Baptist Porta was an Italy scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Scientific Revolution and Protestant Reformation....
     (1535-1615) (Italy)
  • Federico Della Valle (ca. 1560-1628) (Italy)
  • Merrill Denison
    Merrill Denison

    Merrill Denison was a Canadian playwright.Born in Detroit and raised in Ontario, Denison's mother was United States , and his father was of American Revolutionary stock....
     (1893-1975) (Canada)
  • Lucien Descaves (1861-1949) (France)
  • Jean Desmaretz de Saint-Sorlin (1595-1676) (France)
  • Sugathapala de Silva
    Sugathapala de Silva

    Sugathapala De Silva is an acclaimed Sri Lankan dramatist and novelist.De Silva was born in Nawalapitiya, Sri Lanka, on August 8, 1928, the son of a small trader....
  • Philippe Néricault Destouches
    Philippe Néricault Destouches

    Philippe N?ricault Destouches was a France dramatist....
     (1680-1754) (France)
  • Jacques Deval (1894-1972) (France)
  • Juan Bautista Diamante
    Juan Bautista Diamante

    Juan Bautista Diamante , minor Spanish people playwright of the school of Pedro Calder?n de la Barca, was the son of a Portuguese mother and a Sicilian merchant of Greek parentage who came to Madrid some time before 1631....
     (1625-1687) (Spain)
  • Lydia R. Diamond
    Lydia R. Diamond

    Lydia R. Diamond is an American playwright. Her plays include Here I Am...See Can You Handle It, The Inside adapted from the poems of Nikki Giovanni, Stage Black, The Gift Horse, Stick Fly, Voyeurs de Venus, The Bluest Eye, an adaptation from Toni Morrison's novel and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ....
     (born 1969) (United States)
  • Joaquín Dicenta y Benedicto (1863-1917) (Spain)
  • Denis Diderot
    Denis Diderot

    Denis Diderot was a French philosopher and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment and is best known for serving as chief editor and contributor to the Encyclop?die....
     (1713-1784) (France)
  • Steven Dietz
    Steven Dietz

    Steven Dietz is an United States playwright whose work is largely performed regionally, i.e. outside of New York City. Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Dietz graduated in 1980 with a B.A....
  • Salvatore Di Giacomo
    Salvatore Di Giacomo

    Salvatore Di Giacomo was a Neapolitan poet, songwriter and playwright.Di Giacomo is credited as being one of those responsible for renewing Neapolitan dialect poetry at the beginning of the 20th century....
     (1860-1934) (Italy)
  • Tony DiMurro (United States)
  • Joe DiPietro
    Joe DiPietro

    Joe DiPietro is an United States playwright and author. Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, grew up in Oradell. Son of the banker Lou, and Jean DiPietro....
  • Madge Dishman
  • Ludovico Dolce (1508-ca. 1568) (Italy)
  • Maurice Donnay (1859-1945) (France)
  • Ariel Dorfman
    Ariel Dorfman

    File:DorfmanA1.jpgAriel Dorfman is a Chilean-United States novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985....
  • Earl of Dorset
    Earl of Dorset

    The title Earl of Dorset has been created at least four times in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1411 for Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, who was later created Duke of Exeter....
     
  • Tankred Dorst
    Tankred Dorst

    Tankred Dorst is a Germany playwright and storyteller.Tankred Dorst currently lives and works in Munich. His farces, parables, one-act-plays and adaptations are inspired by the theatre of the absurd and the works of Eug?ne Ionesco, Jean Giraudoux and Samuel Beckett....
     (born 1925) (Germany)
  • Stuart Draper
    Stuart Draper

    Stuart B Draper is an United Kingdom actor, playwright and theatre director. He attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and graduated from Durham University...
     (England)
  • Michael Drayton
    Michael Drayton

    Michael Drayton was an England poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era....
     (1563-1631) (England)
  • Alex Dremann (1966-) (United States)
  • John Drinkwater (1882-1937) (England)
  • John Dryden
    John Dryden

    John Dryden was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of English Restoration to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden....
     (1631-1700) (England)
  • Marin Drzic
  • Marcel Dubé
    Marcel Dubé

    Playwright, one of the dozen or so most important figures in Canadian theatre history, Marcel Dub? was born into a family of eight children in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on January 3, 1930....
     (born 1930) (Canada) *French language
    French language

    French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
    *
  • Charles Rivière Dufresny
    Charles Rivière Dufresny

    Charles Dufresny, Sieur de la Rivi?re was a France dramatist. The allegation that his grandfather was an illegitimate son of Henry IV of France procured him the liberal patronage of Louis XIV of France, who gave him the post of valet de chambre, and affixed his name to many lucrative privileges....
     (1654-1724) (France)
  • Roger Martin du Gard
    Roger Martin du Gard

    Roger Martin du Gard was a French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. Trained as a paleographer and archivist, Martin du Gard brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for details....
     
  • Alexandre Dumas, fils
    Alexandre Dumas, fils

    Alexandre Dumas, fils was a French author and dramatist. He was the son of Alexandre Dumas, p?re, also a writer and playwright....
     (1824-1895) (France)
  • Alexandre Dumas, père
    Alexandre Dumas, père

    Alexandre Dumas, p?re , born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world....
     (1802-1870) (France)
  • D Underbelly
    D Underbelly

    D UNDERBELLY is an underground network of independent performance artists and dancers of color based in Brooklyn, NY, founded in 1997 by Artistic Director Baraka de Soleil....
     (United States)
  • Govind Deshpande
    Govind Deshpande

    Govind Purushottam Deshpande also known as GoPu, his Marathi initials, or GPD, is a Marathi playwright and academic.He taught Chinese Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for many years....
  • William Dunlap
    William Dunlap

    ----William Dunlap was a pioneer of the American theater. He was a producer, playwright, and actor, as well as a historian. He managed two of New York's earliest and most prominent theaters, the John Street Theatre and the Park Theatre ....
     (1766-1839) (United States)
  • Marc Dunn
  • Nell Dunn
    Nell Dunn

    Nell Dunn is an English playwright, screenwriter, and author....
  • Philip Dunning (1891-1957) (United States)
  • Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) (England/Ireland)
  • Christopher Durang
    Christopher Durang

    Christopher Ferdinand Durang is an United States playwright known for works of outrageous and often Theatre of the Absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s....
  • Marguerite Duras
    Marguerite Duras

    Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras was a French writer and film director....
     (1914-1996) (France)
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt
    Friedrich Dürrenmatt

    Friedrich D?rrenmatt was a Switzerland German literature and theater. He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II....
     (1921-1990) (Switzerland) *German language
    German language

    German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
    *
  • Pierre Du Ryer
    Pierre du Ryer

    Pierre du Ryer , was a France dramatist.He was born in Paris. His early comedies are loosely modelled on those of Alexandre Hardy, but after the production of the Cid he became an imitator of Pierre Corneille; this was the period when he produced his masterpiece Sc?vole, probably in 1644 ....
     (1606-1658) (France)
  • Jean Dutourd
    Jean Dutourd

    Jean Gwena?l Dutourd is a French novelist. His mother died when he was seven years old. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion of France in World War II....
     (born 1920) (France)
  • Swadesh Deepak
    Swadesh Deepak

    Swadesh Deepak is a popular Indian playwright, novelist and short-story writer. Deepak has been active on the Hindi literary scene since the mid 1960s and is best known for Court Martial, a pathbreaking play that he published in 1991....
    (born 1942- )(India)
  • Henri Duvernois (1875-1937) (France)


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  • José Echegaray
    José Echegaray

    Jos? Echegaray y Eizaguirre was a Spain civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and the leading Spanish dramatist of the last quarter of the 19th century....
     (1832-1916) (Spain)
  • David Edgar
    David Edgar (playwright)

    David Edgar is a British playwright and author who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain....
  • Margaret Edson
    Margaret Edson

    Margaret Edson is an American playwright. Edson graduated with a B.A. in Renaissance History from Smith College, and received a master's in English literature from Georgetown University....
  • Erik Ehn
    Erik Ehn

    Erik Ehn is an American playwright and theatre director known for proposing the Regional Alternative Theatre movement. He is the dean of theater at CalArts, the California Institute of Arts....
  • Günter Eich
    Günter Eich

    G?nter Eich was a German lyricist, dramatist, and author. He was born in Lebus, on the Oder River, and educated in Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris....
  • Baron Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857) (Germany)
  • T. S. Eliot
    T. S. Eliot

    'Thomas Stearns Eliot', Order of Merit , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J....
     (1888-1965) (United States/England)
  • Gundi Ellert
    Gundi Ellert

    Gundi Ellert is a Germany television actor.External links ...
  • Juan del Encina
    Juan del Encina

    Juan del Encina . His actual name was Juan de Fermoselle, and was one of at least 7 known children. Fermoselle was a composer, poet and playwriter, often called the founder of Spain drama....
     (ca. 1469-1529/30) (Spain)
  • Will Eno
    Will Eno

    Will Eno is a contemporary American playwright based in Brooklyn, NY. His plays include Tragedy: a tragedy, The Flu Season, Kid Blanco, King: a problem play, THOM PAIN and, most recently, an adaptation of Ibsen's Peer Gynt....
  • Nick Enright
    Nick Enright

    Nick Enright was an Australian playwright....
  • Eve Ensler
    Eve Ensler

    'Eve Ensler' is an United States playwright, performer, feminist and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues....
  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger
    Hans Magnus Enzensberger

    Hans Magnus Enzensberger , is a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He has also written under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr. He lives in Munich....
  • Brad Erickson
  • Paul Ernst
    Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst

    Paul Ernst was a German writer, dramatist, critic and journalist....
     (1866-1933) (Germany)
  • St. John Ervine (1883-1971) (Ireland/England)
  • George Etherege
    George Etherege

    Sir George Etherege was an England dramatist. He wrote the plays The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub in 1664, She Would if She Could in 1668, and The Man of Mode in 1676....
     (ca. 1635-1691) (England)
  • Solomon Ettinger
    Solomon Ettinger

    Solomon Ettinger was a 19th century Yiddish language- and Hebrew language playwright, poet and writer of songs and fables whose emblematic play Serkele has remained a classic of the Yiddish theatre....
     (1800/03-1856) (Poland) *Hebrew language
    Hebrew language

    Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
     and Yiddish language
    Yiddish language

    Yiddish is a non-territorial High German languages of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. Unlike other such languages, Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet as opposed to a Latin alphabet....
    *
  • Euripides
    Euripides

    Euripides was the last of the three great tragedy of classical Athens . Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias....
     (ca. 485 B.C.-ca. 406 B.C.) (Greece)


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  • Diego Fabbri
    Diego Fabbri

    Diego Fabbri was an Italy playwright whose plays centered on religious themes. His best known plays are Inquisizione and Processo a Ges? ....
     (1911–1980) (Italy)
  • Émile Fabre
    Émile Fabre

    ?mile Fabre was a France dramatic author and administrators of the Com?die-Fran?aise of the Com?die-Fran?aise from 2 December 2, 1915 to October 15, 1936....
     (1869–1955) (France)
  • Michael Fackelmann
  • George Farquhar
    George Farquhar

    George Farquhar was an Ireland dramatist. He is noted for his contributions to late Restoration comedy, particularly for his plays The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux' Stratagem ....
     (1677/8
    1678

    Year 1678 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar ....
    -1707) (England)
  • Graham Farrow England
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a Germany film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A premier representative of the New German Cinema. He maintained a frenetic pace in film-making, in a professional career that lasted less than fifteen years Fassbinder completed 35 Feature film films; two television series shot on film; three Short sub...
  • René Fauchois (1882–1962) (France)
  • Jules Feiffer
    Jules Feiffer

    Jules Ralph Feiffer is an award-wininng United States Print syndication comic-strip cartoonist and author. He is the author of numerous plays, screenplays and children's books ....
     (born 1929) (United States)
  • Ludwig Fels
  • Dan Fenton
  • Edna Ferber
    Edna Ferber

    Edna Ferber , was an American novelist, author and playwright....
     (1887–1968) (United States)
  • Roger Ferdinand
  • Lucas Fernández
    Lucas Fernández

    Lucas Fern?ndez was a Spain dramatist and musician.He was educated at Salamanca, and was a professor of music there from 1522.Lucas Fern?ndez surviving work consists of six plays....
     (1474–1542) (Spain)
  • Luis Fernández Ardavín (1891–1962) (Spain)
  • Leandro Fernández de Moratín
    Leandro Fernández de Moratín

    Leandro Fern?ndez de Morat?n was a Spain dramatist, translator and Spanish Enlightenment literature poet.He was the son of Nicol?s Fern?ndez de Morat?n , who was a major literary reformer in Spain from 1762 until his death in 1780....
     (1760–1828) (Spain)
  • Nicolás Fernández de Moratín
    Nicolas Fernández de Moratín

    Nicol?s Fern?ndez de Morat?n was the father of one of the most important Spain writers and dramatists of the Neoclassicism era, Leandro Fern?ndez de Morat?n....
     (1737–1780) (Spain)
  • Bob Jude Ferrante
    Bob Jude Ferrante

    Bob Jude Ferrante is an United States playwright and composer from New York City. By his own claim his work is composed solely of comedies, although the serious core at the heart of many of his plays seems to contradict that claim somewhat....
     (1959-) (United States)
  • Paolo Ferrari
    Paolo Ferrari

    Paolo Ferrari , Italy dramatist, was born at Modena. His numerous works, chiefly comedies, and all marked by a fresh and piquant style, are the finest product of the modern Italian drama....
     (1822–1889) (Italy)
  • Leo Ferrero (1903–1933) (Italy)
  • Lion Feuchtwanger
    Lion Feuchtwanger

    Lion Feuchtwanger was a Germany-Jewish novelist and playwright....
     (1884–1958) (Germany)
  • Georges Feydeau
    Georges Feydeau

    Georges Feydeau, was a France playwright of the era known as the Belle ?poque. He was especially known for his many lively farces....
     (1862–1921) (France)
  • Nathan Field
  • Henry Fielding
    Henry Fielding

    File:Henry Fielding - Jonathan Wild.pngHenry Fielding was an England novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satire prowess, and as the author of the novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling....
     (1707–1754) (England)
  • Joseph Fields
    Joseph Fields

    Joseph Fields was a Tony Award-winning United States playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film producer....
     (1895–1966) (United States)
  • Alex Finlayson
    Alex Finlayson

    Alex Finlayson is an American playwright whose sly irreverant plays have found more success on the English stage than in the U.S. After winning a Mobil Oil International Playwriting Prize, Winding the Ball -- a dark comedy about a sniper shooting up the small town where he is also the popular high school football coach -- was produced by T...
     (1951 - ) (United States)
  • Clyde Fitch
    Clyde Fitch

    Clyde Fitch was an United States dramatist.Born William Clyde Fitch at Elmira, New York, he wrote over 60 plays, 36 of them original, which varied from social comedies and farces to melodrama and historical dramas....
     (1865–1909) (United States)
  • George Fitzmaurice
    George Fitzmaurice

    George Fitzmaurice was a film Film director and Film producer. Fitzmaurice's career first started as a set designer on stage. Beginning in 1914 until his death in 1940, he directed over 80 films, including several successful movies such as The Son of the Sheik , Raffles , Mata Hari , and Suzy ....
     (1877–1963) (Ireland)
  • Gustave Flaubert
    Gustave Flaubert

    Gustave Flaubert was a France writer who is counted among the greatest Western literature. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary , and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style....
  • Martin Flavin
    Martin Flavin

    Martin Flavin was an United States playwright and Novel.He was awarded the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Journey in the Dark.Flavin was born in San Francisco, California, and died in Carmel, California....
     (1883–1967) (United States)
  • David Fleisher (American playwright who teaches in the English department at Lynn University
    Lynn University

    Lynn University is a private, non-profit university in Boca Raton, Florida, founded in 1962.The university currently hosts students from 40 states and 90 nations....
     in Boca Raton, FL. He co-authored, with David Freedman
    David Freedman

    David Freedman was a Romanian-born United States playwright and biographer who became known as the "King of the Gag-writers" in the early days of radio....
    , Death of An American: The Killing of John Singer
    John Singer

    John Singer may refer to:*John Singer , a legal analyst and media commentator*Seymour Jonathan Singer, a cell biologist and a coauthor of the 1949 scientific paper "Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease"...
    . With Shel Silverstein
    Shel Silverstein

    Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein was an United States poet, songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books....
    , Mickey James and Sharon Spivey, he wrote a musical, Last Call at The Cozy. He is a member of the Authors Guild and the Dramatists Guild of America
    Dramatists Guild of America

    The Dramatists Guild of America is a professional organization for playwrights, composers, and lyricists working in the U.S. theatre market.Membership as an Associate Member is open to any person having written at least one stage play....
    .
  • James Elroy Flecker
    James Elroy Flecker

    James Elroy Flecker was an England poet, novelist and playwright. As a poet he was most influenced by the Parnassian poets.He was born in London, and baptised Herman Elroy Flecker, later choosing to use the first name "James", either because he disliked the name "Herman" or to avoid confusion with his father....
     (1884–1915) (England)
  • Marieluise Fleisser
  • Justin Fleming
    Justin Fleming

    Justin Fleming is a playwright and writer. Like Gerard Windsor and Nick Enright, Fleming attended St Ignatius' College, Riverview, where he was taught English Literature by Joseph Castley and Charles MacDonald, S.J., and the classics by Charles Fraser, S.J....
  • Robert de Flers
    Robert de Flers

    Robert de Flers was a France playwright and journalist. He was a member of the Acad?mie fran?aise from 1920 to his death in 1927....
     (1872–1927) (France)
  • John Fletcher
    John Fletcher (playwright)

    John Fletcher was a Jacobean era playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men , he was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; both during his lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivaled Shakespeare's....
     (1579–1625) (England)
  • Lucille Fletcher
    Lucille Fletcher

    Lucille Fletcher was an United States screenwriter of film, radio and television. Her full name was Violet Lucille Fletcher. Her credits include the story "The Hitchhiker", which was later turned into a radio drama by Orson Welles and a memorable The Twilight Zone episode called "The Hitch-Hiker "....
  • Dario Fo
    Dario Fo

    Dario Fo is an Italy Satire, playwright, theater director, actor, and composer. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997 and in 2007 he was ranked Joint Seventh with Stephen Hawking in The The Daily Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses....
  • Antonio Fogazzaro
    Antonio Fogazzaro

    Antonio Fogazzaro was an Italy novelist....
     (1842–1911) (Italy)
  • Rick Fonté
  • Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin
    Denis Fonvizin

    Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin is a playwright of the Russian Enlightenment whose plays are still staged today. His main works are two satirical comedies which mock contemporary Russian nobility....
     (1744/5
    1745

    Year 1745 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar ....
    -1792) (Russia)
  • Horton Foote
    Horton Foote

    Albert Horton Foote, Jr. was an United States of America playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his screenplay for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird , for which he received an Academy Award....
  • Samuel Foote
    Samuel Foote

    Samuel Foote was a dramatist, actor and theatre manager from Cornwall....
     (1720–1777) (England)
  • John Ford
    John Ford (dramatist)

    John Ford was an English Literature in English#Jacobean literature and Literature in English#Caroline and Cromwellian literature playwright and poet born in Ilsington, Devon in Devon in 1586....
     (ca. 1586-after 1639) (England)
  • Maria Irene Fornes
    María Irene Fornés

    Maria Irene Fornes is a Cuban-American playwright.Fornes was born in Havana, Cuba, and emigrated to the United States at the age of 15. She became a naturalized citizen in 1951....
  • Lars Forssell
    Lars Forssell

    Lars Hans Carl Abraham Forssell was a Sweden writer and member of the Swedish Academy. Forssell was a versatile writer who worked within many genres, including poetry, drama and songwriting....
     (born 1928) (Sweden)
  • Friedrich Forster (1895–1958) (Germany)
  • Ugo Foscolo
    Ugo Foscolo

    Ugo Foscolo was a Greece-born Italy writer, revolutionary and poet. On the death of his father, a physician in Split /Spalato, today Croatia , the family removed to Venice, and at the University of Padua Foscolo completed the studies begun at the Dalmatian grammar school....
     (1778–1827) (Italy)
  • Amy Fox
    Amy Fox

    Amy Fox is a playwright and screenwriter based in New York. She has penned numerous full-length plays, including Summer Cyclone, Farm Boys, and Nothing Revolutionary, as well as having written a good number of one-acts as well....
     (1975–present) (United States)
  • Bruno Frank
    Bruno Frank

    Bruno Frank was a Germany author, poet, dramatist, and humanist.Frank studied law and philosophy in Munich, where he later worked as a dramatist and novelist until the Reichstag fire in 1933....
     (1887–1945) (Germany)
  • Leonhard Frank
    Leonhard Frank

    Leonhard Frank was a Germany expressionism writer. He studied painting and graphic art in Munich, gained acclaim with his first novel, The Robber Band ....
     (1882–1961) (Germany/United States)
  • Ian Fraser (South Africa
    South Africa

    The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
    /United States)
  • Michael Frayn
    Michael Frayn

    Michael Frayn is an England playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy ....
  • Aleksander Fredro
    Aleksander Fredro

    Aleksander Fredro was a Polish poet, playwright and Polish authors....
     (1793–1876) (Poland)
  • David French
    David French

    David French is a Canadian playwright....
  • Gustav Freytag
    Gustav Freytag

    Gustav Freytag was a Germany dramatist and novelist....
     (1816–1895) (Germany)
  • Erich Fried
    Erich Fried

    Erich Fried was an Austrian poet settled in England, known for his political-minded poetry. He was also a broadcaster, translator and essayist....
  • Alan Foster Friedman
  • Bruce Jay Friedman
    Bruce Jay Friedman

    Bruce Jay Friedman is an United States novelist, screenwriter, and playwright.Raised in the Bronx by Irving and Mollie Friedman, Bruce attended the University of Missouri?Columbia as a journalism major then served as a First Lieutenant#US Army, US Air Force, US Marine Corps in the United States Air Force from 1951 to 1953....
     (born 1930) (United States)
  • Brian Friel
    Brian Friel

    Brian Friel is an Irish people dramatist and theatre director from Northern Ireland....
     (born 1929) (Ireland)
  • Ketti Frings
    Ketti Frings

    Ketti Frings was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter....
     (1909–1981) (United States)
  • Max Frisch
    Max Frisch

    Max Frisch was a Switzerland architect, playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of human identity , individuality, responsibility, morality and political commitment....
     (1911–1991) (Switzerland)
  • Christopher Fry
    Christopher Fry

    Christopher Fry was a England playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s....
     (1907–2005) (England)
  • Franz Fühmann
    Franz Fühmann

    Franz F?hmann was a Germany writer. He lived and worked as a short story writer, essayist and children's book author in East Germany. Influenced by Nazism in his youth he became a supporter of Socialism after the war which he however more and more criticised later on and with which he was disappointed bitterly in his later years....
     (1922–1984) (Germany)
  • Athol Fugard
    Athol Fugard

    Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in , best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of South Africa under apartheid and for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood....
  • Ulpian Fulwell (1545/6
    1546

    Year 1546 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar....
     - 1584/5
    1585

    Year 1585 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar ....
    /6
    1586

    Year 1586 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar ....
    )
  • Derek Alan Fuzzell (born 1985) (United States)


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Jeremy Gable
Jeremy Gable

Jeremy Joseph Gable is an American playwright living in Fullerton, California.Gable was born in Lakenheath, Suffolk, England. He is best known for his acclaimed plays seen in Los Angeles and Orange County, California, most notably "American Way ", "Giant Green Lizard! The Musical", the Flying Spaghetti Monster plays, "Re: Woyzeck" and h...
 (born 1982) (United States) Christoph Gahl Zona Gale
Zona Gale

Zona Gale was an American author, and playwright....
 (1874-1938) (United States) Ferdinando Galiani
Ferdinando Galiani

Ferdinando Galiani was an Italy economist.He was born at Chieti, and carefully educated by his uncle, Monsignor C. Galiani, at Naples and Rome with a view to entering the church....
 (1728-1787) (Italy) John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Order of Merit was an England novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter....
 (1867-1933) (England) Simon Gantillon (1887-1961) (France) Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta
Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta

Vicente Antonio Garc?a de la Huerta was a Spain dramatist, educated at Salamanca. At Madrid he soon attracted attention by his literary arrogance and handsome person; and at an early age became chief of the National Library, a post from which he was dismissed owing to the intrigues of his numerous enemies....
 (1734-1787) (Spain) Antonio García Gutiérrez
Antonio García Gutiérrez

'Antonio Garc?a Guti?rrez' was a Spain Romanticism dramatist.After having studied medicine in his native town, he moved to Madrid in 1833, and earned a meager living by translating plays of Eug?ne Scribe and the Alexandre Dumas, p?re; lacking success, he was on the point of enlisting when he suddenly sprang into fame as the author of El tr...
 (1813-1884) (Spain) Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca

Federico Garc?a Lorca was a Spain poet, dramatist and theatre director. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was abducted and murdered by persons likely affiliated with the Nationalist cause at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War....
 (1898-1936) (Spain) Robert Garnier
Robert Garnier

Robert Garnier , was a France tragic poet. He published his first work while still a law-student at Toulouse, where he won a prize in the Acad?mie des Jeux Floraux....
 (1544-1590) (France) David Garrick
David Garrick

David Garrick was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and Theatrical producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson....
 (1717-1779) (England) George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne

George Gascoigne was an England poet. He was the eldest son of Sir John Gascoigne of Cardington, Bedfordshire....
 (1535-1577) (England) Armand Gatti
Armand Gatti

Armand Gatti is a French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter and film-maker. His 1963 film, El Otro Crist?bal was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival....
 (born 1924) (France) Natalie Gaupp
Natalie Gaupp

Natalie Gaupp is an American playwright. Her professional production credits include theatres primarily in the Southwest US, as well as off-off-Broadway....
 (born 1967) (United States) John Gay
John Gay

John Gay was an English people poet and dramatist. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera , set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch....
 (1685-1732) (England) Michael V. Gazzo
Michael V. Gazzo

Michael Vincente Gazo was a noted Broadway theatre playwright who later in life became a prominent United States film and television actor.He was a member of the Actors Studio, and was author of the notable Broadway theatre play on drug addiction A Hatful of Rain, which ran for 389 performances in 1955 and 1956 - starring Ben Gazzara...
 (1923-1995) (United States) Jack Gelber
Jack Gelber

Jack Gelber was a Chicago-born US American playwright best known for his 1959 dramaThe Connection , depicting the dead-end life of drug addicts....
 (1932-2003) (United States) Gratien Gélinas
Gratien Gélinas

Gratien G?linas, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Royal Society of Canada was a Canada author, playwright, actor, director, producer and administrator who is considered one of the founders of modern Canadian theatre and film....
 (1909-1999) (Canada) *French language
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
* Jean Genet
Jean Genet

Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial France novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activism. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing....
 (1910-1986) (France) Paul Géraldy (1885-1983) (France) Katharina Gericke Esther Gerritsen Joel Gersmann (1942-2005) (United States) Alice Gerstenberg Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg
Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg

Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg was a Germany poet and criticHe was born at Tondern, in Schleswig.After studying law at Jena he entered the Denmark military service and took part in the Russian campaign of 1762....
 (1737-1823) (Germany) Landen Gessell Elke Geurts (born 1973) (Netherlands) Michel de Ghelderode
Michel De Ghelderode

Michel de Ghelderode was an avant-garde Demographics of Belgium dramatist, writing in French language. He was born on Palm Sunday April 3rd, 1898, as Adh?mar-Adolphe-Louis Martens in Ixelles and married in 1924 to Jeanne-Fran?oise G?rard....
 (1898-1962) (Belgium) *French language
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
* Henri Ghéon
Henri Ghéon

File:Henri Gh?on by Jean Veber.jpgHenri Gh?on , born Henri Vangeon in Bray-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Marne, was a French playwright, critic and poet....
 (1875-1944) (France) Gherardo Gherardi (1891-1949) (Italy) Paolo Giacometti
Paolo Giacometti

Paolo Giacometti was an Italy dramatist born at Novi Ligure. He was educated in law at Genoa, but at the age of twenty had some success with his play Rosilda and then devoted himself to the stage....
 (1816-1882) (Italy) Giuseppe Giacosa
Giuseppe Giacosa

Giuseppe Giacosa was an Italian poet, playwright and Libretto.He was born in Colleretto Parella, now Colleretto Giacosa, near Turin. His father was a magistrate....
 (1847-1906) (Italy) Gigio Artemio Giancarli (ca. 1500-1550) (Italy) Donato Giannotti
Donato Giannotti

Donato Giannotti was an Italy political writer and playwright.He was one of the leaders of the shortlived Florentine Republic of 1527. He subsequently wrote theoretical works on republicanism....
 (1492-1573) (Italy) William Gibson
William Gibson (playwright)

William Gibson was a Tony Award-winning United States playwright and novelist. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1938.Gibson's most famous play is The Miracle Worker , the story of Helen Keller's childhood education, which won him the Tony Award for Best Play....
 (born 1914) (United States) David Gieselmann Kathie Lee Gifford
Kathie Lee Gifford

Kathryn Lee "Kathie Lee" Gifford is an United States television hostess, singer, actor, noted for her 15-year run on the talk show Live with Regis and Kelly, which she co-hosted with Regis Philbin....
 W. S. Gilbert
W. S. Gilbert

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 (1836-1911) (England) William Gillette
William Gillette

William Hooker Gillette was an United States actor, playwright and stage manager.Gillette was a major playwright and actor in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....
 (1855-1937) (United States) Frank D. Gilroy
Frank D. Gilroy

Frank Daniel Gilroy is an American playwright, screenwriter, and film producer and film director. He received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play, The Subject Was Roses in 1965....
 (born 1925) (United States) Antonio Gil y Zárate
Antonio Gil y Zárate

Antonio Gil y Z?rate was a Spain dramatist and pedagogue whose work is associated with Romanticism. The mineral Zaratite was named after him....
 (1793-1861) (Spain) José Antonio Giménez Arnau y Gran (1912-1985) (Spain) Jean Giono
Jean Giono

Jean Giono was a French author renowned for his works of fiction set in the Provence region of France.He was born and lived for many years in Manosque, Haute Provence....
 (1895-1970) (France) Silvio Giovaninetti (1901-1959) (Italy) Giambattista Giraldi Cinthio
Giovanni Battista Giraldi

Giovanni Battista Giraldi was an Italy novelist and poet. He appended the nickname Cinthio to his name and is commonly referred to by that name ....
 (1504-1573) (Italy) Giovanni Giraud
Giovanni Giraud

Count Giovanni Giraud , Italy dramatist, of French origin, was born at Rome, and showed a precocious passion for the theatre. His first play, L'Honest? non si vince, was successfully produced in 1798....
 (1776-1834) (Italy) Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II....
 (1882-1944) (France) Vincenzo Giusti (1532-1619) (Italy) Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell

Susan Keating Glaspell was a bestselling novelist and a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. She was a founding member of the Provincetown Players, one of the most important collaboratives in the development of modern drama in the United States....
 (1882-1948) (United States) John Godber
John Godber

John Harry Godber is an English dramatist, known mainly for his innovative theatre and observational comedies with an edge....
 Kermi Goell Reinhard Goering (1887-1936) (Germany) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
 (1749-1832) (Germany) Ruth and Augustus Goetz Curt Goetz
Curt Goetz

Curt Goetz was a Swiss-German writer, actor and film director. Curt Goetz was regarded as one of the most brilliant comedy writer of his time in the German-speaking world....
 (1888-1960) (Germany) Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852) (Russia) Abraham Haim Lipke Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden

Abraham Goldfaden ; was an Ukraine-born Jewish poet, playwright. stage director and actor in the languages Yiddish and Hebrew, author of some 40 plays....
 (1840-1908) (Russia/United States) *Hebrew language
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 and Yiddish language
Yiddish language

Yiddish is a non-territorial High German languages of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. Unlike other such languages, Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet as opposed to a Latin alphabet....
* James Goldman
James Goldman

James Goldman was an American, Academy Awards-winning screenwriter and playwright, and the brother of screenwriter and novelist William Goldman....
 (1927-1998) (United States) Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Goldoni

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was a celebrated Republic of Venice playwright and librettist, whom critics today rank among the European theatre's greatest authors....
 (1707-1793) (Italy) Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield , his pastoral poem The Deserted Village , and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer ....
 (1728/30-1774) (England) Ivan Goll Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Marian Gombrowicz was a Poland novelist and dramatist. His works are characterized by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and an absurd, anti-nationalist flavor....
 (1904-1969) (Poland/Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
) *Polish language
Polish language

Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
* Jules Eckert Goodman (1876-1962) (United States) Frances Goodrich
Frances Goodrich

Frances Goodrich was an American dramatist, screenwriter, and actor most noted for her collaborations with her partner and husband Albert Hackett....
 (1890-1984) (United States) Jacob Gordin (1853-1909) (Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
/United States) *Russian language
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 and Yiddish language
Yiddish language

Yiddish is a non-territorial High German languages of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. Unlike other such languages, Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet as opposed to a Latin alphabet....
* Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon

Ruth Gordon Jones , better known as Ruth Gordon, was an United States actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her films roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby and the eccentric life-loving Maude in Harold and Maude....
 Charles Gordone
Charles Gordone

Charles Edward Gordone was an American playwright, actor, director, and educator. He was the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and devoted much of his professional life to the pursuit of multi-racial American theater and racial unity....
 (1925-1995) (United States) Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky

Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov , better known as Maxim Gorky , was a Russian/Soviet Union author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist....
 (1868-1936) (Russia) Abraham Dov Ber Gottlober (1811-1899) (Russia) *Hebrew language
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 and Yiddish language
Yiddish language

Yiddish is a non-territorial High German languages of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. Unlike other such languages, Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet as opposed to a Latin alphabet....
* Johann Christoph Gottsched
Johann Christoph Gottsched

Johann Christoph Gottsched , was a Germany author and critic.He was born at Juditten near K?nigsberg, Brandenburg-Prussia, the son of a Lutheran clergyman....
 (1700-1766) (Germany) Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges

Olympe de Gouges , born Marie Gouze, was a playwright and political Activism whose Feminism and Abolitionism writings reached a large audience....
 David Gow
David Gow

David Gow is a playwright, screenwriter and character actor. He is Canadian and currently resides in Quebec. He is married to writer L. Kalo Gow....
 (1964 - ) (Canada, Quebec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
) Carlo Gozzi
Carlo Gozzi

Carlo, Count Gozzi , was an Italy dramatist....
 (1720-1806) (Italy) Christian Dietrich Grabbe
Christian Dietrich Grabbe

Christian Dietrich Grabbe was a German dramatist.Born in Detmold, Principality of Lippe, he wrote many historical plays and is also known for his use of satire and irony....
 (1801-1836) (Germany) Ed Graczyk Duncan Graham
Duncan Graham

Duncan Graham may refer to:* Duncan Archibald Graham , Canadian physician and academic* Duncan Graham , Canadian Member of Parliament for Ontario North, 1897–1900...
 (Australia) David Marshall Grant
David Marshall Grant

David Marshall Grant is an United States actor and playwright.Grant was born in Westport, Connecticut, to physician parents. Immediately after graduating from the Yale University School of Drama, his first paying job was as Richard Gere's lover in the Broadway theatre play Bent ....
 Marsha L. Grant Harley Granville-Barker
Harley Granville-Barker

Harley Granville-Barker was an England actor, theatre director, theatrical producer, critic and playwright.Born in London, Harley Granville Barker made his first appearance onstage there at the age of 14....
 (1877-1946) (England) Jörg Graser Günter Grass
Günter Grass

G?nter Wilhelm Grass is a Nobel Prize in Literature-winning Germany author and playwright.He was born in the Free City of Danzig . Since 1945, he has lived in West Germany , but in his fiction he frequently returns to the Danzig of his childhood....
 (born 1927) (Germany) Jacinto Grau Delgado (1877-1958) (Spain) Simon Gray
Simon Gray

Simon James Holliday Gray Order of the British Empire was a prolific postwar British playwright, whose work was performed worldwide.Simon Gray was born in Hayling Island, Hampshire, England....
 Antonio Francesco Grazzini
Antonio Francesco Grazzini

Antonio Francesco Grazzini was an Italian people author....
 (1503-1584) (Italy) Jean-Pierre Grédy (born 1920) (France) Julien Green
Julien Green

Julian Hartridge Green, or Julien Green , was a French born American author of several novels including L?viathan and Each in His Own Darkness....
 (1900-1998) (France/United States) *French language
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
* Paul Green
Paul Green

Paul Eliot Green was an American playwright best known for his depictions of life in North Carolina during the first decades of the twentieth century....
 (1894-1981) (United States) Richard Greenberg
Richard Greenberg

Richard Greenberg is a Tony Award winning American playwright. He is the author of over 25 plays including seven South Coast Repertory world premieres: The Injured Party, The Violet Hour, Everett Beekin, Hurrah at Last, Three Days of Rain , Night and Her Stars and The Extra Man....
 Graham Greene
Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour was an English writer best known as a novelist, but who also produced short stories, plays, screenplays, travel writing and criticism....
 (1904-1991) (England) Robert Greene
Robert Greene (16th century)

Robert Greene was an England author best known today for his pamphlet Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, containing a polemic attack on William Shakespeare....
 (1558-1592) (England) David Greenspan
David Greenspan

David Greenspan is an award winning United States actor and playwright. In 1997 he received an Obie Award for his work in the off-broadway revival of Boys in the Band....
 Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) (Ireland) David Greig
David Greig (dramatist)

David Greig is a Scottish people playwright and theatre director.Greig was born in Edinburgh in 1969 and was brought up in Nigeria. He studied drama at Bristol University....
 (Scotland) Jean-Baptiste Louis Gresset (1709-1777) (France) Tom Griffin
Tom Griffin (playwright)

Tom Griffin is a playwright. The Boys Next Door is his most successful work. His other plays include Amateurs, Einstein and The Polar Bear, Pasta, and Mrs. Sedgewick's Head....
 Trevor Griffiths
Trevor Griffiths

Trevor Griffiths is an England dramatist.Raised as a Catholic, he attended the local Catholic school before being accepted into Manchester University in 1952 to read English language....
 Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer

Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer , an Austrian dramatic poet, was born in Vienna....
 Alan Gross Jim Grover
Jim Grover

James or Jim Grover may refer to:* Jim Grover , famous instructor in World War II combatives and defensive shooting tactics* Jim Grover , English dramatist...
 Andreas Gryphius
Andreas Gryphius

Andreas Gryphius was a Germany lyric poet and dramatist.Gryphius was born as Andreas Greif in Glog?w in Silesia, where his father was a clergyman....
 John Guare
John Guare

John Guare is an American playwright. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation , and Landscape of the Body....
 (1938- ) (United States) Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry

Sacha Guitry was a France film actor, director, screenwriter and playwright.He was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1885, the son of the actor Lucien Guitry....
 Sachin Gupta
Sachin Gupta

Sachin Gupta is an Demographics of India playwright and theatre director....
 A.R. Gurney Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow

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Peter Hacks
Peter Hacks

Peter Hacks was a Germany playwright, author, and essayist.Hacks was born in Wroclaw, Province of Lower Silesia. Displaced by World War II, Hacks settled in Munich in 1947, where he made acquaintance with Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht....
 Ruth Hale
Ruth Hale (playwright and actress)

Ruth Hale was an United States playwright and actor.Hale was born in West Valley City, Utah and was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....
 Adam de la Halle
Adam de la Halle

Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu was a France-born trouv?re, poet and musician, who broke with the long-established tradition of writing liturgy poetry and music to be an early founder of secular theater in France....
 (ca. 1237-ca. 1288) (France) Peter Handke
Peter Handke

Peter Handke is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright....
 William Hanley
William Hanley

'William Hanley' is an United States author, playwright, and screenwriter. Among other works, he has written the plays Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, Whisper in my good ear]], and Mrs....
 Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry was an African-American playwright and author of political speeches, letters, and essays. Her most famous work, A Raisin in the Sun, was inspired by her family's legal battle against racially segregated housing laws in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago, Illinois during her childhood....
 Haseena Moin
Haseena Moin

Haseena Moin is a notable Pakistani dramatist, playwright and writer for radio programming and television programming.A native of Kanpur, the most populous city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Hassena Moin received her early education in her ancestral region and, after the partition of India, migrated with her family to Paki...
 (b. 1941) - Pakistan
Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
 Ernst Hardt
Ernst Hardt

Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Hardt , born Ernst St?ckhardt,, was a Germany playwright, poet, and novelist.Hardt was born in Grudziadz, West Prussia....
 David Hare
David Hare (dramatist)

Sir David Hare is an English people playwright and Theatre director and film director....
 Moss Hart
Moss Hart

Moss Hart was an American playwright and theatre director of plays and musical theater....
 Fred Harvey
Fred Harvey

Frederick Henry Harvey was an entrepreneur who developed the Fred Harvey Company lunch rooms, restaurants, souvenir shops, and hotels, which served rail passengers on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, the Gulf Coast and Santa Fe Railway, the Kansas Pacific Railway, the St....
 Bharatendu Harishchandra
Bharatendu Harishchandra

Bharatendu Harishchandra is known as the "Father of Modern Hindi Literature". He was one of the greatest Hindi writers of Modern India. A recognised poet, he was also a trend setter in Hindi prose-writing....
 Jonathan Harvey
Jonathan Harvey

Jonathan Harvey is a United Kingdom playwright whose work has earned multiple awards. He is also a former secondary school English teacher....
 Walter Hasenclever
Walter Hasenclever

Walter Hasenclever was a German Expressionism writer.The son of the doctor Friedrich Hasenclever and his wife Emma, Walter Hasenclever began studying law at Oxford University in 1908 before changing to the University of Lausanne....
 Jeffrey Hatcher
Jeffrey Hatcher

Jeffrey Hatcher is a playwright. He is the writer of the stage play Compleat Female Stage Beauty, commissioned and produced by City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh PA and the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown WV, which he later adapted into a screenplay, shortened to just Stage Beauty ....
 Cleve Haubold
Cleve Haubold

Cleve Haubold is a playwright, actor, director, magician, and has a Phd in playwriting from the University of Texas.Mr. Haubold was featured in the 1975-76 Who's Who in the South and Southwest...
 Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann was a Germany dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912....
 Václav Havel
Václav Havel

V?clav Havel is a Czechs playwright, writer and politician. He was the tenth and last List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia of Czechoslovakia and the first List of presidents of the Czech Republic ....
 Friedrich Hebbel Peter Hedges
Peter Hedges

Peter Hedges is an United States novelist, screenwriter, and film director.Hedges grew up in West Des Moines, Iowa, and attended Valley High School , where he was involved in the theater department, including the improvisational theatre group and the and Mime artist troupe, "The Baker's Dozen." He later went to the North Carolina School of...
 Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence Hellman was an United States playwright, linked throughout her life with many Left-wing politics causes. She was romantically involved for 30 years with mystery novel and crime novel writer Dashiell Hammett , and was also a long-time friend and literary executor of author Dorothy Parker....
 Beth Henley
Beth Henley

Elizabeth Becker Henley is an American dramatist and actor. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981 for her play, Crimes of the Heart ....
 Nigel Heseltine
Nigel Heseltine

Nigel Heseltine was a Welsh literature writer, of travel books, short stories, Play , and poetry. He was the son of Peter Warlock. However, as his birth was not registered until 1930, as there is no record of his birth in the hospital where it allegedly took place, as for the first year of his life he was raised by foster-parents, as Heselti...
 Dorothy Hewett
Dorothy Hewett

Dorothy Coade Hewett was an Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist, and playwright. She was also a member of the Communist Party of Australia, though she clashed on many occasions with the party's leadership....
 John Heywood
John Heywood

Rome wasn't built in a day redirects here, for the Morcheeba song see Rome Wasn't Built in a DayJohn Heywood was an English writer known for his Play , poems, and collection of proverbs....
(c. 1497-c. 1580) Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Wolfgang Hildesheimer was a Germany author who incorporated the Theatre of the Absurd. He originally trained as an artist, before turning to writing....
 Shawn Hirabayashi Prince Hoare Rolf Hochhuth
Rolf Hochhuth

File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P084771, Verleihung des Berliner Kunstpreises.jpgRolf Hochhuth is a German author and playwright. He is best known for his 1963 drama The Deputy and remains a controversial figure for his plays and other public comments, such as his 2005 defense of Holocaust Denial David Irving....
 Fritz Hochwaelder Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Hugo von Hofmannsthal , was an Austrian novelist, libretto, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist....
 Darcy Hogan
Darcy Hogan

Darcy M. Hogan is an American playwright living in Orange County, California. She is best known for her play "The Land Southward." She is the co-Artistic Director of The March Hog Theater Company, which she co-founded with Russ Marchand, and a member of the Orange County Underground Burlesque Society....
 Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg

Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway during the time of the Denmark-Norway, and spent most of his adult life in Denmark....
 Michael Hollinger
Michael Hollinger

Michael Hollinger is an United States playwright who is currently an assistant professor of Theatre at Villanova University and a resident playwright at ....
 Rupert Holmes
Rupert Holmes

Rupert Holmes is an United States-United Kingdom composer, singer-songwriter, musician and author of plays, novels and stories. He is best known for his number one pop hit "Escape " in 1979, his Tony Award winning musical Drood and his more recent Broadway theatre musical Curtains ....
 Ödön von Horváth
Ödön von Horváth

?d?n von Horv?th, born December 9 1901, in Su?ak, a suburb of Rijeka,Austria-Hungary , and killed by a falling tree branch June 1 1938, in Paris, was one of the most important German-language playwrights and authors of the twentieth century....
 Sidney Howard
Sidney Howard

Sidney Coe Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Awards in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind ....
 Tina Howe
Tina Howe

Tina Howe is an United States playwright. She is the daughter of CBS broadcast journalist Quincy Howe, the granddaughter of biographer Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe and the great-granddaughter of the Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe....
 Frank Howson
Frank Howson

Frank Howson has had a diverse career based in entertainment. Noted for film and theatre work, he directed Flynn on the early life of Errol Flynn and Hunting ....
 John-Michael Howson
John-Michael Howson

John Michael Howson , born in Melbourne, Australia in 1936, is an Australian writer, reporter and entertainer. His involvement in the Australian entertainment scene as a writer, producer and performer spans more than 40 years....
 Hroswitha of Gandersheim Dusty Hughes
Dusty Hughes (playwright)

Dusty Hughes is a British playwright, writing for both the theatre and television....
 Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes, was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. Hughes is best-known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance....
 Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo was a France poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romanticism movement in France....
 Maureen Hunter
Maureen Hunter

Maureen Hunter is a Canada playwright who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Manitoba.She was born in Indian Head, Saskatchewan and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan....


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Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major Nineteenth-century theatre Norway playwright of realism drama and poet. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama" and is one of the founders of modernism in the theatre....
 Almir Imsirevic William Inge
William Inge

William Motter Inge was an United States playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations....
 Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco

Eug?ne Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu , was a Romanian and France playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd....
 Roger Iverson David Ives
David Ives

David Ives is a contemporary American playwright. A native of South Chicago, Ives attended a minor Catholic seminary and Northwestern University and, after some years' interval, Yale School of Drama, where he received an MFA in playwriting....
 Naomi Iizuka
Naomi Iizuka

Naomi Iizuka is a playwright. Iizuka's works often have a non-linear storyline and are influenced by her multicultural background. Her plays are written without the use of capital letters....


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Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry was a France writer born in Laval, Mayenne, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Brittany descent on his mother's side....
 Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian feminism playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clich?s and their subjugating power."...
 Douglas William Jerrold
Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold was an England dramatist and writer.He was born in London. His father, Samuel Jerrold, was an actor and lessee of the little theatre of Wilsby near Cranbrook, Kent in Kent; but in 1807 he moved to Sheerness....
 Christopher John (Australia) Terry Johnson
Terry Johnson (dramatist)

Terry Johnson is a United Kingdom dramatist and director working for stage, television and film. He is a Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre....
 Denis Johnston
Denis Johnston

Denis Johnston was an Irish ethnicity writer. He wrote mostly play , but also works of literary criticism, a book-length biography of Jonathan Swift, a memoir and an eccentric work of philosophy....
 Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson was an England English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satire plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist , and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his Lyric poetry poems....
 James Joyce
James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
 Jaimie Martin

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Georg Kaiser
Georg Kaiser

Friedrich Carl Georg Kaiser, called Georg Kaiser, was a German dramatist. Although he was highly prolific and wrote in a number of different styles, he made his mark as the most successful expressionist dramatist and, along with Gerhart Hauptmann, the most frequently performed playwright in the Weimar Republic....
 Kalidasa Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane

Sarah Kane was an England playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture ? both physical and psychological ? and death....
 Girish Karnad
Girish Karnad

Girish Raghunath Karnad is a contemporary writer, playwright, actor and Film Director in Kannada language. He is the latest of seven recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada language, the highest literary honour conferred in India....
 George S. Kaufman
George S. Kaufman

George Simon Kaufman was an American playwright, theatre director and theatre producer, humorist, and drama critic....
 Moisés Kaufman
Moisés Kaufman

Mois?s Kaufman is a playwright, Theatre director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project. He is the author of "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde", "33 Variations" and is perhaps best known for writing The Laramie Project with other members of Tectonic Theater Project....
 John B. Keane
John B. Keane

John Brendan Keane was an Ireland playwright, novelist and essayist from Listowel, County Kerry....
 Joseph Kesselring
Joseph Kesselring

Joseph Otto Kesselring was an United States of America writer and playwright known best for his Play Arsenic and Old Lace .Born to Germany parents in New York City in 1902, Joseph Kesselring went on to teach vocal music at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas....
 Thomas Kilroy
Thomas Kilroy

Thomas F. Kilroy , the Irish playwright and novelist, was born on 23 September 1934 in Green Street, Callan, County Kilkenny, County Kilkenny and studied at University College, Dublin....
 Sidney Kingsley
Sidney Kingsley

Sidney Kingsley was an American dramatist. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play, Men in White in 1934.Biography ...
 Elizabeth Kinman Heinrich von Kleist
Heinrich von Kleist

Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him....
 Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger

Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger was a Germany dramatist and novelist....
 Václav Kliment Klicpera
Václav Kliment Klicpera

V?clav Kliment Klicpera was a Czechoslovakia playwright, author, and poet. He was one of the first presenters of Czech drama, and was especially influential in the foundation of comedy Czech theater....
 Alexander Kluge
Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge is a noted film director and author....
 Frederick Knott
Frederick Knott

Frederick Major Paull Knott was an England playwright, best known for writing the London-based stage thriller Dial M for Murder, which was later filmed in Hollywood by Alfred Hitchcock....
 Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright, best known for his intense Expressionism portraits and landscapes.Kokoschka's early career was marked by portraits of Vienna celebrities, painted in a nervously animated style....
 Harry Kondoleon
Harry Kondoleon

Harry Kondoleon was a gay United States playwright and novelist.He was born in 1955 and died of AIDS in 1994.He graduated from Hamilton College and the Yale School of Drama....
 Karl König
Karl König

Karl K?nig was an Austrian paediatrician who founded in the Camphill Movement, an international movement of therapeutic intentional communities for those with special needs or disabilities....
 Allan Stewart Konigsberg Bernard Kops
Bernard Kops

Bernard Kops is a British Dramatist, poet and novelist, born in the East End of London in 1926.His first play, The Hamlet of Stepney Green, was produced at the Oxford Playhouse in 1957....
 August von Kotzebue Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus

Karl Kraus was an Austrian German literature and journalism, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorism, playwright and poet. He is regarded as one of the foremost German-language satirists of the 20th century, especially for his witty criticism of the press, Germany culture, and German and Austrian politics....
 Helmut Krausser
Helmut Krausser

Helmut Krausser is a Germany author, poet and playwright who was born in Esslingen am Neckar....
 Franz Xaver Kroetz
Franz Xaver Kroetz

Franz Xaver Kroetz is a Germany author, playwright, actor and film director.He is also known for his role as the gossip columnist 'Baby' Schimmerlos in the television series Kir Royal....
 Nestor Kukolnik
Nestor Kukolnik

Nestor Vasilievich Kukolnik was a Russian playwright and prose writer of Rusyn origin. Immensely popular during the early part of his career, his works were subsequently dismissed as sententious and sentimental....
 Rick Kunzi Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi Order of the British Empire is an England playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. The themes of his work have touched on topics of Race , nationalism, immigration, and human sexuality....
 Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1992 for his play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film, Munich ....
 Thomas Kyd
Thomas Kyd

Thomas Kyd was an England dramatist, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama....


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Neil LaBute
Neil LaBute

Neil N. LaBute is an United States film director, screenwriter and playwright....
 Jun Lana
Jun Lana

Jun Lana , born as Rodolfo R. Lana, Jr., is a Philippines playwright and two-time FAMAS Awards screenwriter. The winner of 11 Palanca Awards, he became the youngest member of the Palanca_Awards#Palanca_Hall_of_Fame in 2006....
 Jonathon Larson Miklos Laszlo
Miklós László

Miklos Laszlo was a playwright and naturalized American citizen born in Budapest, Hungary. He is best remembered for his play Illatszertar, also known as Parfumerie, which was used as the storyline for three movies, The Shop Around the Corner, In the Good Old Summertime, and, most recently, You've Got Mail....
 ,(1903-1973) Else Lasker-Schüler
Else Lasker-Schüler

Else Lasker-Sch?ler was a Jewish Germany poet and playwright famous for her Bohemianism lifestyle in Berlin. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement....
 Sue Lenier
Sue Lenier

Susan Jennifer Lenier is an English people writer. She published two books of poetry and a number of plays....
 Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz was a Baltic German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement....
 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Reinhard Lettau
Reinhard Lettau

Reinhard Lettau was a German-American writer. He never used his middle name, Adolf, if he could avoid it. He emigrated to the US in the middle of the 1950s and was a professor for German Literature at the University of California, San Diego from 1967....
 Ira Levin
Ira Levin

Ira Levin was an United States author, dramatist and songwriter....
 Saunders Lewis
Saunders Lewis

Saunders Lewis was a Wales poet, dramatist, historian, literary critic, and political activist. He was a prominent Welsh nationalism and founder of the Welsh National Party ....
 Nell Leyshon
Nell Leyshon

Nell Leyshon is a British dramatist and novelist.She was born in Glastonbury, England, and lives in the county of Dorset. She attended the University of Southampton, gaining a first in English Literature....
 David Lindsay-Abaire
David Lindsay-Abaire

David Lindsay-Abaire is an American playwright and lyricist. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for his play, Rabbit Hole....
 Romulus Linney
Romulus Linney (playwright)

Romulus Zachariah Linney IV is an American playwright and professor.Linney was born in Philadelphia, the son of Maitland Clabaugh and Romulus Zachariah Linney III....
 Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan

Kenneth Lonergan is a playwright, screenwriter, and director born in the Bronx, New York City, New York. He began writing in high school, later graduating from the New York University Playwriting Program....
 Stephen Lowe Craig Lucas
Craig Lucas

Craig Lucas is an United States playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, Musical theater actor, and film director. He is currently Associate Artistic Director at the Intiman Playhouse in Seattle....
 Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce

Clare Boothe Luce was an United States playwright, editor, journalist, ambassador, socialite and one of the first women ever in the United States House of Representatives, representing the state of Connecticut....
 Charles Ludlam
Charles Ludlam

Charles Braun Ludlam was an United States actor, director, and playwright....
 Ken Ludwig
Ken Ludwig

Ken Ludwig is an United States playwright and theatre director.Born in York, Pennsylvania, Ludwig was educated at Haverford College, Harvard Law School, and Trinity College, Cambridge at Cambridge University....
 Otto Ludwig

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Ewan MacColl
Ewan MacColl

Ewan MacColl was an United Kingdom folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer. He was the father of singer/songwriter Kirsty MacColl....
 Michael MacLennan
Michael MacLennan

Michael Lewis MacLennan is a Canada playwright, screenwriter, and television producer of television shows. He is a two-time finalist for Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award, and the only playwright to win the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Award twice....
 Wendy MacLeod
Wendy MacLeod

Wendy MacLeod is an American playwright.MacLeod received a Bachelor of Arts from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where she now teaches and is a playwright-in-residence....
 George Macropedius
Macropedius

Georgius Macropedius , also known as Joris van Lanckvelt, was a Dutch people Humanism, schoolmaster and 'the greatest Latin playwright of the 16th century'....
, (1487-1558) Ellen McLaughlin
Ellen McLaughlin

Ellen McLaughlin is an United States playwright and actor for stage and film. Her plays include Days and Nights Within, A Narrow Bed, Infinity's House, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Tongue of a Bird, The Trojan Women, Helen, The Persians and Oedipus....
 Carlo Maria Maggi, (Italy) *Insubric language* Monica Malek-Yonan Rosie Malek-Yonan
Rosie Malek-Yonan

Rosie Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian people actress, artist, Theatre director, author and activist....
 David Mamet
David Mamet

David Alan Mamet is an United Statesn author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, sometimes vulgar dialogue and arcane stylized phrasing, as well as for his exploration of masculinity....
, (born 1947) Klaus Mann
Klaus Mann

Klaus Mann was a Germany writer....
 William Marchant, (United States), (1923-1995) Donald Margulies
Donald Margulies

Donald Margulies is an American playwright and professor of English literature at Yale University. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2000 for his play, Dinner With Friends....
 Pierre de Marivaux
Pierre de Marivaux

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, commonly referred to as Marivaux , was a France novelist and dramatist.He is considered one of the most important France playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedy for the Com?die-Fran?aise and the Com?die-Italienne of Paris....
 Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe was an Kingdom of England Playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost English Renaissance theatre tragedy next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own mysterious and untimely death....
, (1564-1593) Jane Martin
Jane Martin

Jane Martin is the pen-name of a playwright speculated to be retired Actors Theatre of Louisville artistic director Jon Jory. Jon Jory, Martin's spokesperson, denies being Jane Martin but has directed the premieres of Martin's shows....
 (United States) (pen name for unknown playwright) William Somerset Maugham Vladimir Mayakovsky Joey Mayberry Marius von Mayenburg Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh is a contemporary English-born Irish people playwright and film director....
, (born 1970) Frank McGuinness
Frank McGuinness

Frank McGuinness is an award-winning Irish playwright, translation and poet....
 Sally McLean
Sally McLean

Sally McLean is an Australian actress who has played leading roles on the London stage in various productions including Macbeth, Hamlet, Top Girls, Uncle Vanya and the World Premier of Annabel?s Requiem....
 Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally is an United States playwright, considered one of the leading American dramatists still writing today. In addition to four Tony Awards, McNally has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Foundation, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters....
, (born 1939) Mark Medoff
Mark Medoff

Mark Medoff is an United States playwright, screenwriter, film director and theatre director, actor, and professor.Born in Mount Carmel, Illinois, Medoff received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Miami and his Master's degree from Stanford University....
 Charles L. Mee
Charles L. Mee

Charles L. Mee is an United States playwright and author. He was born in Barrington, Illinois in 1938. He was stricken with polio in 1953, which he details in his 1999 memoir A Nearly Normal Life....
 Menander
Menander

Menander , Greek dramatist, the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy, was the son of well-to-do parents; his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the Athenian general and governor of the Thracian Chersonese known from the speech of Demosthenes De Chersoneso....
 David Mercer
David Mercer

David Mercer was an England playwright and dramatist. After working as a technician and serving in the Royal Navy he attended Newcastle University and graduated in 1953....
 George Middleton
George Middleton (playwright)

George Middleton was an American playwright, director, and producer....
 Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton was an England English Renaissance theatre and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period....
 Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller may refer to:*Andrew Miller , member of Parliament, UK*Andrew Miller , North Dakota Attorney General*Andrew Miller , author of Oxygen...
, (1992) Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller was an United States playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in Theater in the United States and film for almost 100 years, writing a wide variety of dramas, including celebrated Play such as The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman, which are studied and performed w...
 (American. 1915-2005) Willy Millowitsch
Willy Millowitsch

Willy Millowitsch was a Germany stage and TV actor and the director of the Volkstheater Millowitsch in Cologne.Millowitsch was born in Cologne....
 Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde....
 (1848-1917) Molière
Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known by his stage name Moli?re, was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature....
, (1622-1673) Jose Zorrilla y Moral
José Zorrilla y Moral

Jos? Zorrilla y Moral , was a Spain Spanish Romance literature poet and dramatist.He was born in Valladolid to a magistrate in whom Ferdinand VII of Spain placed special confidence,....
 Félix Morisseau-Leroy
Félix Morisseau-Leroy

File:Felix Moriso Lewa.jpgF?lix Morisseau-Leroy , was a Haitian writer who wrote in Haitian Creole language for poetry and plays, the first significant writer to do so....
 (Moriso Lewa), (1912-1998) Melvyn Morrow
Melvyn Morrow

Melvyn Morrow is an Australian playwright. He co-wrote "Shout! The Legend of the Wild One" and "Dusty - The Original Pop Diva" with John-Michael Howson and David Mitchell....
 Dr. Narendra Mohan
Dr. Narendra Mohan

Dr.Narendra Mohan-Eminent Indian poet, playwright and critic, ....
 Ralph Morse (actor)
Ralph Morse (actor)

Ralph Morse is an English actor, singer, teacher, guitarist and writer of historically-based dramas. He is also a notable neopaganism in the UK....
 John Mortimer
John Mortimer

Sir John Clifford Mortimer, Order of the British Empire, Queen's Counsel was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author....
 Tad Mosel
Tad Mosel

Tad Mosel was an American playwright and one of the leading dramatists of hour-long teleplay genre for live television during the 1950s. He received the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play All the Way Home ....
 Itamar Moses
Itamar Moses

Itamar Moses is an United States of America playwright and author.Moses grew up in Berkeley, California, California, earned his bachelor's degree at Yale University, and his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University....
 Dimitrios Mpogris
Dimitrios Mpogris

Dimitrios Mpogris or Bogris was a famous Greece playwright of Greeks theater. He was born in Salamis Island in 1890. He studied in Athens and Paris natural sciences....
, ( Greece ), ( 1890–1964 ) Sean Muir Heiner Müller
Heiner Müller

Heiner M?ller was a Germany dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, M?ller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht....
 Kaj Munk Thomas Murphy Tommy Murphy Robert Musil
Robert Musil

Robert Musil was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist literature novels....
 Mohan Rakesh
Mohan Rakesh

Mohan Rakesh was one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani literary movement of the Hindi literature in the 1950s. He made significant contribution to novel, short story, travelogue, criticism, memoirs and drama....


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Richard Nelson
Richard Nelson

Richard Nelson may refer to:* Richard Nelson , anthropologist and writer* Richard Nelson * Richard R. Nelson * Richard Nelson , American lighting designer, see Tony Award for Best Lighting Design...
 Johann Nestroy
Johann Nestroy

Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy was an opera singer, acting and, primarily, a playwright.Nestroy was born in Vienna, Austria. After a career as an opera singer in several European cities from 1822 to 1831, Nestroy returned to his native Vienna and took up writing and acting....
 Anthony Neilson
Anthony Neilson

Anthony Neilson is a Scottish playwright and director commonly associated with the "in-yer-face theatre" movement. He began his career at the Finborough Theatre, London....
 Peter Nichols
Peter Nichols

Peter Nichols is an England writer of stage plays, film and television.Born in Bristol, England, he was educated at Bristol Grammar School, and then did his National Service in the Royal Air Force for three years, going on to study acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School....
 William Nicholson
William Nicholson (writer)

William Nicholson is a BAFTA-, Academy Award- and Tony Awards-nominated British people screenwriter, playwright, and novelist....
 Marsha Norman
Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play night, Mother....
 Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

Lynn Nottage is a respected United States playwright whose work often deals with the lives of African american and women. She was born in Brooklyn and is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama....
 János Nyíri
János Nyíri

Janos NyiriDirector who took French and English drama across borders and then wrote a highly praised novel about the HolocaustTHE Hungarian revolutionary, playwright and novelist J?nos Nyiri was the author of three films, three stage plays and three novels, of which the critically acclaimed Battlefields and Playgrounds was his masterpiece....


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Dan O'Brien
Dan O'Brien

Daniel Dion O'Brien is a former United States decathlon. He was deemed one of the best decathlon athletes of the 1990s, winning an Olympic gold medal after winning three consecutive World Championships in Athletics....
 Michael O'Brien
Michael O'Brien

Michael or Mike O'Brien may refer to:* Michael O'Brien , American poet* Michael O'Brien , West Coast Eagles* Mike O'Brien , co-founder, ArenaNet; game designer and programmer...
 Sean O'Casey
Seán O'Casey

Se?n O'Casey was a major Irish theatre dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes....
 Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Literature. His plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of Realism , associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg....
 Gerlinde Obermeier
Gerlinde Obermeier

Gerlinde Obermeier was an extravagantly emotional writer with a powerful feminist perspective which extended into a critique of the mental health establishment as essentially oppressive....
 Clifford Odets
Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets was an United States playwright, screenwriter, socialist, and social protester....
 Bolaji Odofin
Bolaji Odofin

Bolaji Odofin is a prize-winning Nigerian playwright. A former account executive and magazine editor, she currently works in the voluntary sector....
 Han Ong
Han Ong

Playwright and novelist Han Ong is both a high-school dropout and one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Born in the Philippines, he moved to the United States at 16....
 Joe Orton
Joe Orton

Joe Orton , born John Kingsley Orton, was an England playwright.In a short but prolific career lasting from 1964 until his death, he shocked, outraged and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedy....
 John Osborne
John Osborne

John James Osborne was an England playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of The Establishment. The stunning success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre....
 Peter Oswald
Peter Oswald

Peter Oswald is a well-known English playwright. He is married to the poet Alice Oswald, with whom he has three children. They live in Devon, South West England....
 Rochelle Owens

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Ralph Pape
Ralph Pape

Ralph Pape is an American playwright best known for Say Goodnight, Gracie , Soap Opera and Hearts Beating Faster ....
 Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks is an American playwright and screenwriter. She received the MacArthur Fellows Program in 2001, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Topdog/Underdog....
 Angelo Parra
Angelo Parra

Angelo Parra is an United States playwright. He was born in Manhattan and grew up in The Bronx, New York City. After graduating from Fordham University, his career included work as a reporter/photographer, public relations professional, politician, free-lance writer, and PR and journalism teacher at New York University before turning to thea...
 John Patrick
John Patrick

John Patrick was an American playwright and screenwriter....
 Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry is an American playwright, screenwriter, actor and director and producer of independent films and stage plays. His best-known character is Mable "Madea" Simmons, who is a physically imposing and overbearing but well-intentioned woman who serves both as comic relief and as the loud voice of conscience for the protagonists of Perry...
 James Peterson (playwright) (1976-) (UK) Charles Pike Arthur Wing Pinero
Arthur Wing Pinero

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director....
 Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter, Companion of Honour, Order of the British Empire , an English people playwright, screenwriter, actor, Theatre director, poet, author, political activist, and the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, was at the time of his death considered by many "the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation."...
 Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello was an Italy dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934....
 Plautus
Plautus

Titus Maccius Plautus , commonly known as Plautus, was a Ancient Rome playwright. His comedy are among the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature....
 Ulrich Plenzdorf
Ulrich Plenzdorf

Ulrich Plenzdorf was a Germany author and dramatist....
 Sharon Pollock
Sharon Pollock

Sharon Pollock is a Canada playwright who lives in Calgary, Alberta. She has been Artistic Director of Theatre Calgary , Theatre New Brunswick and Garry Theatre, a company she herself founded in 1992....
 Will Power
Will Power

Will Power is an Australian motorsport driver, who currently competes in the IndyCar Series....
 Stanislaw Przybyszewski
Stanislaw Przybyszewski

Stanislaw Przybyszewski was a Poland novelist, dramatist, and poet of the decadent Naturalism school. He wrote both in German language and in Polish language....
 (1868-1927) (Poland) J. B. Priestley
J. B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley, Order of Merit was an England novelist and Presenter....
 Alexander Pushkin Ariel Pytrell Narciso Pimentel, Jr.

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Abu Khalil Qabbani
Abu Khalil Qabbani

Abu Khalil Qabbani is a Syrian playwright and composer. He is considered the founder of the short musical play in Arabic theatre. His play Abu al-Hassan al-Mughaffal caused a wave of protest as a result of his mockery of Caliph Harun al-Rashid, and ended with a decree by the Ottoman government to close his theatre and prevent theatrica...
 (1835-1902) (Syria) Philippe Quinault
Philippe Quinault

Philippe Quinault , France dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris.He was educated by the liberality of Fran?ois Tristan l'Hermite, the author of Marianne....
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David Rabe
David Rabe

David William Rabe is an American playwright and screenwriter....
 Jean Racine
Jean Racine

Jean Racine was a France dramatist, one of the "big three" of 17th century France , and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition....
 Ferdinand Raimund
Ferdinand Raimund

Ferdinand Raimund was an Austrian actor and dramatist....
 Jonathan Rand Adam Rapp
Adam Rapp

Adam Rapp is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, and musician.The son of Mary Lee and Douglas Rapp, he was raised in Joliet, Illinois, Illinois, with his brother, actor Anthony Rapp, and sister, Anne....
 Lutz Rathenow
Lutz Rathenow

Lutz Rathenow is a dissident Germans writer and poet who was haunted by the Stasi until the German reunification. From then on, his fortunes changed, and he received several Literature honors and awards....
 Terence Rattigan
Terence Rattigan

Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan was one of England's most popular 20th century dramatists. He was born in Kensington, London of Irish people extraction, educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Oxford, and his plays are generally situated within an upper middle class background....
 James Reaney
James Reaney

James Crerar Reaney, Order of Canada, Royal Society of Canada was a Canada poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was born in Ontario.Reaney won his first of three Governor General's Awards for the book of poetry, The Red Heart, in 1949....
 Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza

Yasmina Reza is a France playwright, actor, novelist and screenwriting. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungary....
 Erwin Riess
Erwin Riess

Erwin Riess, playwright and dramatist was born on March 13, 1957 in Vienna, Austria. He attended school in Krems, Austria and later returned to Vienna to study policy and theatre science....
 Philip Ridley
Philip Ridley

Philip Ridley is a British people artist working with various media. His work is characterised by an intriguing mix of both the menacing and the magical....
 Lawrence Riley
Lawrence Riley

Lawrence Riley was a successful United States playwright and screenwriter. He gained fame in 1934 in literature as the author of the Broadway theatre hit Personal Appearance, which was turned by Mae West into the classic film Go West, Young Man , starring herself....
 Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety ? themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets....
 Lennox Robinson
Lennox Robinson

Esm? Stuart Lennox Robinson was an Ireland dramatist, poet and theatre producer and director who was involved with the Abbey Theatre.Robinson was born in Westgrove, Douglas in County Cork and raised in a Protestant and Unionism family in which he was the youngest of seven children....
 Rony Robinson
Rony Robinson

Rony Robinson is a writer, broadcaster, and educationalist. Iconic, Sony Radio Academy Awards BBC Radio Sheffield daytime presenter. His novels include: The Ted Carp Tradition , The Beano ....
 Jack Rosenthal
Jack Rosenthal

Jack Morris Rosenthal Order of the British Empire was an England playwright, who wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations....
 Kenneth G. Ross
Kenneth G. Ross

Kenneth Graham Ross is an Australian playwright and screenwriter best known for writing the 1978 stage play Breaker Morant, that was based on the life of Australian soldier Breaker Morant....
 Edmond Rostand
Edmond Rostand

Edmond Eug?ne Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac ....
 Friederike Roth
Friederike Roth

Frederike Roth is a Germany writer. She is especially active as a playwright....
 David Rudkin
David Rudkin

James David Rudkin is an England playwright of Anglo-Irish origin. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and St Catherine's College, Oxford....
 Paul Rudnick
Paul Rudnick

Paul M. Rudnick is an United Statesn playwright, screenwriter and novelist. His plays include I Hate Hamlet, Jeffrey, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla and The New Century....
 Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl

Sarah Ruhl is an United States playwright. She studied under Paula Vogel at Brown University , did graduate work at Pembroke College, Oxford, and currently lives in New York....
 Willy Russell
Willy Russell

William Russell is a British dramatist, lyricist, and composer. His best-known works are Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine, and Blood Brothers ....


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Partap Sharma
Partap Sharma

Partap Sharma is an Indian playwright, novelist, author of books for children, commentator, actor and documentary film-maker....
 Hans Sachs
Hans Sachs

Hans Sachs was a Germany meistersinger , poetry, playwright and shoemaker....
 Gupta Sachin Nelly Sachs
Nelly Sachs

Nelly Sachs, was a German language poet and dramatist whose Nazism experience transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews....
 Florencio Sánchez
Florencio Sánchez

Florencio S?nchez was a Uruguayan playwright, journalist and political figure. His artistic work unfolded in the "Silver River" region . He's considered one of the founding fathers of theater from the Silver River area....
 William Saroyan
William Saroyan

William Saroyan was an American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno, California....
 Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre , commonly known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre , was a French existentialism philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary criticism....
 Robert Schenkkan
Robert Schenkkan

Robert Frederic Schenkkan, Jr. is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor, perhaps most recognizable as the character Dexter Remmick in Star Trek: The Next Generation....
 (United States) Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller [johan/jo?han kr?st?f fri?t??? f?n ??l??/??l?] was a Germany poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright....
 Arno Schmidt
Arno Schmidt

File:KueheinHalbtrauer.jpgArno Schmidt was a German language author and translator....
 Ron Schnitzius
Ron Schnitzius

Ron Schnitzius is a playwright noted for The Wrinkled Rebellion, a comedy in which senior citizens revolt against conditions in their retirement home. Other works include My Dog Ate My Mission Statement and Timecastle....
 Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler

File:Arthur_Schnitzler_1912.jpgDr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrians Austrian literature and dramatist....
 Werner Schwab
Werner Schwab

Werner Schwab was an Austrian playwright and visual artist.From 1978 to 1982 he studied sculpture at the Akademie der bildenden K?nste in Vienna....
 Robert Schenkkan
Robert Schenkkan

Robert Frederic Schenkkan, Jr. is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor, perhaps most recognizable as the character Dexter Remmick in Star Trek: The Next Generation....
 Mary Rohde Scudday
Mary Rohde Scudday

Mary Rohde Scudday, is a playwright from San Antonio, Texas. She received her M.F.A. from Trinity University in 1977. She began her career with the Dallas Theater Center before teaching theatre at Louisiana State University in Shreveport ....
 David Sedaris
David Sedaris

David Sedaris is a Grammy Award-nominated United States humorist, writer, comedian, detective, bestselling author, and radio contributor.Sedaris was first publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "SantaLand Diaries"....
 Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger

Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Ancient Rome Stoicism philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature....
 Bhisham Sahni
Bhisham Sahni

Bhisham Sahni was a Hindi writer, playwright, and actor, most famous for his novel and television screenplay Tamas , a powerful and passionate account of the Partition of India....
 Janet Silva Kenneth Jarrett Singleton Francesca Sanders
Francesca Sanders

Francesca Sanders is an award winning playwright from Portland, Oregon.Her plays include:*Lilac Samba*Rising From The Sugar Bowl*Urashima Taro...
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Anthony Shaffer
Anthony Shaffer

Anthony Joshua Shaffer was an England playwright, novelist, and screenwriter....
 Peter Shaffer
Peter Shaffer

Sir Peter Levin Shaffer is an England dramatist, author of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been filmed....
, (born 1926) William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
, (1564-1616) Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange is an United States playwright, dancer, actor, director, author, lecturer, installation artist, and poet. As a self proclaimed Black feminism, much of the content of her work addresses issues relating to Race and feminism....
 John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley

John Patrick Shanley is an American playwright. It is rumored that he insists in his contract that not a single word can be changed in the screenplays that he writes, but Shanley has denied that this rumor is true....
 George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish people playwright.Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays....
 (1856-1950) Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn , sometimes credited as Wally Shawn, is an United States actor and playwright. Regularly seen on film and television, where he is usually cast as a comic character actor, he has pursued a parallel career as a playwright whose work is often dark, politically charged and controversial....
 (born 1943) Rob Shearman
Rob Shearman

Robert Shearman is currently best-known as a writer for Doctor Who and for his ongoing association with Jarvis & Ayres Productions which has resulted in six plays for BBC Radio 4 broadcast in the station's regular weekday Afternoon Play slot, and one classic serial....
 Edward Sheldon
Edward Sheldon

Edward Brewster Sheldon was an American dramatist. His plays include Salvation Nell and Romance , which was made into a motion picture with Greta Garbo....
 Jane Shepard
Jane Shepard

Jane Shepard is an United States playwright, filmmaker and cartoonist She was born in Galesburg, Illinois....
 (born 1958) Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard

Samuel Shepard Rogers III is an American playwright, and actor, director of stage and film. He is author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play, Buried Child....
 (born 1943) Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish playwright and British Whig Party statesman....
 Jonathan Marc Sherman
Jonathan Marc Sherman

Jonathan Marc Sherman is a contemporary American playwright.He was born in Morristown, New Jersey, and grew up in Livingston, New Jersey. He began writing plays on a typewriter his father gave him as a birthday gift when he was twelve or thirteen years old....
 R. C. Sherriff
R. C. Sherriff

Robert Cedric Sherriff was an England dramatist, best known for his World War I play Journey's End....
 Robert E. Sherwood
Robert E. Sherwood

Robert Emmet Sherwood American playwright, editing, and screenwriter....
 George Shiels
George Shiels

George Shiels was an Ireland dramatist whose plays were a success both in his native Ulster and at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. His most famous plays are The Rugged Path, The Passing Day, and The New Gossoon....
 Del Shores
Del Shores

Del Shores is an United States Film director, television writer, playwright and actor....
 Larry Shue
Larry Shue

Larry Shue was an United States playwright and actor, best known for writing two often-performed farces, The Nerd and The Foreigner ....
 Nicky Silver
Nicky Silver

Nicky Silver is an American playwright, formerly of Philadelphia, who currently resides in New York City. As a teen, Silver attended Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York....
 Neil Simon
Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is one of the most reliable hitmakers in Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world....
 Kenneth Jarrett Singleton Bernard Slade
Bernard Slade

Bernard Slade is a Canada playwright and screenwriter.Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Slade began his career as an actor with the Garden Center Theatre in Vineland, Ontario....
 Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith is a Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-nominated American actress, playwright, and professor....
 Charles Smith
Charles Smith (playwright)

Charles Smith is an African-American-United States playwright born in Chicago. Many of his Play consider politics and history themes from anAfrican-American perspective....
 Derrick Matthew Smith Sophocles
Sophocles

Sophocles was the second of the three classical Greece tragedy whose work has survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus and earlier than those of Euripides....
 Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Benjamin Sorkin is an United States screenwriter, television producer and playwright. After graduating from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre in 1983, Sorkin spent much of the 1980s in New York as a struggling, largely unemployed actor....
 Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. Some consider him Africa's most distinguished playwright, as he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, the first African to be so honoured....
 Ron Sparks
Ron Sparks

Ron Sparks is a Canadian comedian, actor and writer. He was born in Chatham, Ontario but lives in Toronto, where he is best known as a stand-up comedian and regular and favourite juror on MuchMusic's highest-rated show, Video on Trial....
 Biljana Srbljanovic
Biljana Srbljanovic

Biljana Srbljanovic is a Serbian playwright and politician.She wrote five plays for the theater, and one TV screenplay for Otvorena vrata TV series that ran on Radio Television of Serbia during the mid-1990s....


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Shelagh Stephenson
Shelagh Stephenson

Shelagh Stephenson is a playwright, born in Northumberland and read drama at Manchester University. Her stage plays include The Memory of Water , An Experiment with an Air Pump, Ancient Lights , Five Kinds of Silence and Mappa Mundi ....
 Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard Order of Merit , Order of the British Empire, FRSL is a British screenwriter and playwright. He has written plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia , Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll ....
 David Storey
David Storey

David Malcolm Storey , the son of a miner, is an England playwright, screenwriter, award winning novelist and a former professional Rugby League player....
 August Stramm Botho Strauß
Botho Strauß

Botho Strauss is a Germany playwright, novelist and essayist. His father was a chemist. After finishing his secondary education, he studied German, History of the Theatre and Sociology in Koeln and Muenchen, but never finished his dissertation on "Thomas Mann und das Theater"....
 August Strindberg Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges , originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and film director born in Chicago.Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations....
 Patrick Süskind Alfred Sutro
Alfred Sutro

Alfred Sutro Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom author and dramatist.He was a translator and friend of Maeterlinck. Educated at the City of London School and in Brussels, he began his career with a series of translations of Maeterlinck's works, all of which except the dramas he translated from the French language....
 Caridad Svich
Caridad Svich

Caridad Svich is an award-winning US Latina playwright, songwriter/lyricist, translator and editing known for her critique of the American dream and media culture, her adaptations of ancient Greek texts, and free linguistic and visual mix of Latino and American cultures ....
 Jeffrey Sweet
Jeffrey Sweet

Jeffrey Sweet is an United States writer, journalist, songwriter and theatre historian. Sweet's father was the late James Sweet, a science writer for the University of Chicago who aided Supreme Court chief justice Earl Warren in drafting two anti-McCarthy speeches; his mother is violinist Vivian Sweet....
 John Millington Synge
John Millington Synge

Edmund John Millington Synge was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. He was one of the cofounders of the Abbey Theatre....


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George Tabori
George Tabori

George Tabori was a Hungary writer and theater director.Born in Budapest as Gy?rgy T?bori, a son of Korn?l and Elsa T?bori. His father died in Auschwitz in 1944, but his mother and his brother Paul managed to escape the Nazis....
 Steven Talbot Jean Tardieu
Jean Tardieu

Jean Tardieu was a France artist, musician, poet and dramatic author. He earned a degree in literature and worked for a publishing house. He published several poetry collections in the 1930s before starting to write for the stage....
 Henry Taylor
Henry Taylor

Henry Taylor may refer to:* Henry Taylor , English dramatist* Henry Taylor , U.S. boxer* Henry Taylor , British race car driver* Henry Taylor , British long-distance swimmer...
 Bernard J. Taylor
Bernard J. Taylor

Bernard J. Taylor is the writer and composer of six stage musicals that have been produced around the world and translated into German, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian, Spanish and Italian....
 Samuel Taylor
Samuel A. Taylor

Samuel A. Taylor was an United States playwright and screenwriter.Born Samuel Albert Tanenbaum in Chicago, Illinois, Taylor made his Broadway theatre debut as author of the play The Happy Time in 1950....
 Vijay Tendulkar
Vijay Tendulkar

Vijay Tendulkar was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marathi....
 Terence
Terence

Publius Terentius Afer , better known as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC, and he died young probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome....
 Tian Han
Tian Han

Tian Han , born in Changsha, Hunan Province, was a drama activist, playwright, a leader of revolutionary music and movies, as well as a translator and poet....
 Ernest Thompson
Ernest Thompson

Ernest Thompson is an American writer, actor, and director....
 (b. 1949) (United States) Judith Thompson
Judith Thompson

Judith Clare Thompson is a prominent Canada playwright who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail once declared that "...in this country, a playwright as good as Judith Thompson is a miracle." She has twice been awarded the Governor General's Award for drama, and is the recipient of many other awards including...
 Ludwig Tieck
Ludwig Tieck

Johann Ludwig Tieck was a German language poet, translator, editing, novelist, and critic, who was part of the Romanticism of the late 18th and early 19th centuries....
 Habib Tanvir
Habib Tanvir

Habib Tanvir is one of the most popular Hindi playwrights, a theatre director, poet and actor. He is the writer of plays such as, Agra Bazar and Charandas Chor ....
 Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky

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 (United States) Ernst Toller
Ernst Toller

Ernst Toller was a Germany Communism playwright, best known for his expressionist plays....
 Colorado Tolston
Colorado Tolston

T. James Belich , is an American playwright and actor. He is the author of a dozen new and original Play in genres that include Mystery fiction, fantasy, religious, and children's....
, pseudonym of T. James Belich (b. 1976) (United States) Bartolomé de Torres Naharro
Bartolomé de Torres Naharro

Bartolom? de Torres Naharro was a Spain dramatist of Jewish converso descent. After some years of soldiering and of captivity in Algiers, Torres Naharro took Holy Orders, settled in Rome about 1511, and there devoted himself chiefly to writing plays....
 Miles Tredinnick
Miles Tredinnick

Miles Tredinnick is a writer and lead singer with the British rock band London ....
 Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky

Kurt Tucholsky was a German-Jewish journalist, satire and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel....


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Nicholas Udall
Nicholas Udall

Nicholas Udall , was a England playwright and schoolmaster, the author of Ralph Roister Doister, generally regarded as the first comedy written in the English language....
 Alfred Uhry
Alfred Uhry

Alfred Fox Uhry is an American playwright, screenwriter, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In 2006, he was the first individual to receive the Academy Award, Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for dramatic writing....
 Orl Unho Rodolfo Usigli
Rodolfo Usigli

Rodolfo Usigli was a Mexico playwright. He was called the "playwright of the Mexican Revolution."Usigli born to an Italy father and a Poland mother in Mexico City....


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Alexander Vampilov
Alexander Vampilov

Alexander Valentinovich Vampilov was a Russian playwright. His play Elder Son was first performed in 1969, and became a national success two years later....
 John Vanbrugh
John Vanbrugh

Sir John Vanbrugh was an England architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restoration comedy, The Relapse and The Provoked Wife , which have become enduring stage favourites but originally occasioned much controversy....
 John William Van Druten
John William Van Druten

John William Van Druten was an English playwright and theatre director, known professionally as John Van Druten. He began his career in London, and later moved to America becoming a US citizen....
 Billy Van Zandt Gil Vicente
Gil Vicente

Gil Vicente , called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese people playwright and poet who Actor in and Theatre director his own plays....
 Paula Vogel
Paula Vogel

Paula Vogel is an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, How I Learned to Drive....
 Carlos von Son Alfonso Vallejo
Alfonso Vallejo

Alfonso Vallejo is a Spanish playwright, poet, Painting and neurologist. He has published 33 plays and 20 poetry books. Vallejo was awarded the Lope de Vega prize in 1976 for his play "El desg?ace"....


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Heinrich Leopold Wagner
Heinrich Leopold Wagner

Heinrich Leopold Wagner , born in Strasbourg, was a Germany dramatist, known for his 1776 tragedy Die Kinderm?rderin....
 Stephen Wakelam
Stephen Wakelam

Stephen Wakelam is an English playwright. His works include The Pattern of Painful Adventures and an adaptation of Murder in the Mews....
 Susan Wald (writer on General Hospital
General Hospital

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; Daytime Emmy & WGA Awards nominee & winner) Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott

Derek Alton Walcott is a West Indies poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English language. Born in Castries, St. Lucia, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992....
 Craig Walker
Craig Walker

Craig Stewart Walker is a Canada writer, theatre director, actor and educator.Walker began his career in the theatre as an actor with the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival and the National Arts Centre of Canada and other companies....
 George F. Walker
George F. Walker

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 Naomi Wallace
Naomi Wallace

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 Martin Walser
Martin Walser

Martin Walser is a Germany writer. He became famous for describing the conflicts his anti-heroes have in his novels and stories....
 Robert Walser
Robert Walser (writer)

Robert Walser , was a German language-speaking Swiss writer....
 Agnes Walsh
Agnes Walsh

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 Saadallah Wannous
Saadallah Wannous

Saadallah Wannous , Syrian playwright. He was born in the village of Hussein al-Bahr, near Tartous, where he received his early education. He studied journalism in Cairo, Egypt and later served as editor of the art and cultural sections of the Syrian paper Al-Baath and the Lebanon As-Safir....
, (Syria
Syria

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), (1941-1997) Ronnie Warren (1964-) (South Africa) Dale Wasserman
Dale Wasserman

Dale Wasserman was an United States playwright. His protagonists are a bit like Wasserman himself: raffish rebels, fiercely independent fools?poets, madmen and misfits?societal outcasts who defy authority and ?tilt at windmills?, reluctant heroes , who are called upon to make some extraordinary sacrifice in order to protect or preserve the...
 Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein

Wendy Wasserstein was an American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play, The Heidi Chronicles....
 Keith Waterhouse
Keith Waterhouse

Keith Waterhouse is a novelist, newspaper columnist, and the writer of many television series.In February 2004 he was voted Britain's most admired contemporary columnist by the British Journalism Review....
 Harrison Watts John Webster
John Webster

John Webster was an England Literature in English#Jacobean literature dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage....
 Frank Wedekind
Frank Wedekind

Benjamin Franklin Wedekind , usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a Germany playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes , is considered to anticipate expressionism, and he was a major influence on the development of Epic theater....
 Peter Weiss
Peter Weiss

File:Peter Weiss 1982.jpgPeter Ulrich Weiss was a Germany writer, Painting, and artist of adopted Sweden nationality. He is particularly known for his play Marat/Sade and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance....
 Edward Crosby Wells Franz Werfel
Franz Werfel

Franz Werfel was an Austrian people-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet....
 Timberlake Wertenbaker
Timberlake Wertenbaker

Timberlake Wertenbaker is a British playwright....
 Arnold Wesker
Arnold Wesker

Sir Arnold Wesker is a prolific British dramatist known for his contributions to kitchen sink drama. He is the author of 42 Play , 4 volumes of short stories, 2 volumes of essays, a book on journalism, a children's book, extensive journalism, poetry and other assorted writings....
 Peter Whelan
Peter Whelan

Peter Whelan is a United Kingdom playwright.Whelan was born and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, England. His works includes seven plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the first of which was Captain Swing , in 1979....
 John Whiting
John Whiting

John Robert Whiting was an England dramatist and critic.Born in Salisbury, England, his works include:* A Penny for a Song. A play * Marching Song....
 Adolf von Wilbrandt Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish people playwright, Irish poetry and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest Celebrity of his day....
 Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. His best known work is his play Our Town....
 Emlyn Williams
Emlyn Williams

George Emlyn Williams Order of the British Empire known as Emlyn Williams, was a Wales dramatist and actor. He was born into a Welsh language-speaking, working-class family in Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales....
 Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams

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 David Williamson
David Williamson

David Keith Williamson Order of Australia is one of Australia's best-known playwrights. He has also developed screenplays for film and television....
 (b. 1942) (Australia) August Wilson Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson

Lanford Wilson is an American playwright, considered one of the founders of the Off-off Broadway theater movement. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980, elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2004 elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters....
 Jaimie-Lee Wise Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, a.k.a. "Witkacy" was a Poland playwright, novelist, painter, photographer and History of philosophy in Poland#Twentieth century....
  (1885-1939) (Poland) William Wycherley
William Wycherley

William Wycherley was an England dramatist of the English Restoration period....
 Laurence Mark Wythe
Laurence Mark Wythe

Laurence Mark Wythe is a British composer, lyricist and writer, born on February 8, 1974 in Kent, United Kingdom. He is principally known for his 2006 musical theatre Tomorrow Morning which received a premiere production directed by Nick Winston, produced by Hilary Williams....
 Charles Wood
Charles Wood

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Y

William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats

File:William Butler Yeat by George Charles Beresford.jpgWilliam Butler Yeats was an Irish people poet and dramatist and one of the foremost figures of 20th century in literature....
 (1865-1939) (Ireland) Benjamin Yeoh
Benjamin Yeoh

Benjamin Yeoh aka Ben Yeoh is one of the first British Chinese playwrights to have his plays performed and recognised in the UK.Born near London, England his father came from Ipoh, Malaysia and mother from Singapore....
 (born 1978) Chay Yew
Chay Yew

Chay Yew is a playwright and theatre director who was born in Singapore. As of 2007 he lives in New York City....


Z

Gabriela Zapolska
Gabriela Zapolska

Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska , known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Poland novelist, playwright, naturalism , feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress....
 (1860-1921) (Poland) Paul Zindel
Paul Zindel

Paul Zindel was an American playwright, author, and educator....
 (1936-2003) (United States) Émile Zola
Émile Zola

?mile Fran?ois Zola was an influential France writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of Naturalism , an important contributor to the development of Naturalism , and a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus....
 (1840-1902) (France) José Zorrilla (1817-1893) (Spain) Carl Zuckmayer (1896-1977) (Germany/United States/Austria) Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer....
 (1881-1942) (Austria) Zillur Rahman John
Zillur Rahman John

Zillur Rahman John is a notable mime and pentomime artist and author from Bangladesh. In 1993 he won the Best Performance Award in group mime from Kolkata, India....
  (1959- ) [Bangladesh, Canada]

See also


List of Bosnian playwrights List of British playwrights since 1950
British playwrights since 1950

This is a list of British dramatists who wrote their plays in the 1950s or later:#A #B #C #D #E #F #G #H #I #J #K #L #M #N #O #P #Q #R #S #T #U #V #W #X #Y #Z...
 List of Canadian playwrights
List of Canadian playwrights

Playwrights from Canada include:...
 List of French playwrights
List of French playwrights

This is an incomplete list of playwrights from France in chronological order, according to date of birth.*Pierre Corneille *Cyrano de Bergerac *Moli?re ...
 List of German playwrights List of Irish dramatists
List of Irish dramatists

This is a list of playwrights either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship. Playwrights whose work is in Irish language are included. A brief outline of the history of Irish theatre is also available....
 List of Irish playwrights List of Jewish American playwrights
List of Jewish American playwrights

This is a list of famous Jewish Americans playwrights. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.*Lynn Ahrens*Sholom Aleichem...
 List of Slovenian playwrights
List of Slovenian playwrights

This is a list of Slovenians playwrights.*Peter Bo?ic *Ivan Cankar *Tone Cufar *Fran Sale?ki Fin?gar *Slavko Grum *Drago Jancar *Jo?e Javor?ek ...
 List of playwrights from the United States
List of playwrights from the United States

This is a list of playwrights from the United States....
 List of early-modern women playwrights (UK)
List of early-modern women playwrights (UK)

This is a chronological list of women playwrights who were active in the United Kingdom before approximately 1800, with a brief indication of productivity....